[lovedswain]

It would probably only take a handful of engineers to mount a solid DoS attack by requesting approval for every shell script they write, home Ubuntu ISO they install, or neighbour's printer they fix to get this policy a little more sensibly refined. In any case whoever wrote that e-mail to him is not someone I would possibly tolerate working for

[zvr]

This is not a DoS attack -- this is business as usual, in some environments. And the employees cannot proceed with releasing scripts, patches, or other software until they have approval (this is the case we're talking about, not "ISO installs" or "neighbor printer fix").