30 Aug
2008
30 Aug
'08
3:50 p.m.
Tony Mori wrote:
I would disagree with that - nothing is free. My time
is worth
something, and unless you are volunteering up your free
time to support, it ain't free.
Your time to go down to the software store and
pick up a box of crap
ware with the "Microsoft" on it isn't free either.
Second, I work for a multi-billion dollar company, and there is NO WAY
on this earth any minutely-responsible IT
department is going to run ANYTHING unsupported in a production
environment, especially with SOX and other
requirements.
Weren't we just talking about educational software discounts here? How
exactly does a multi-billion dollar company fit in here?
If you want it supported you can buy it supported. RedHat and Suse will
both happily take your money for site licenses and such.
The rest of your reasons are so far fetched as to not warrant further
response. I'll leave you to your own ignorance, proof of which can be
found in the next line of your quoted text:
To enlighten you, EEE PC's can come with XP, just as some Dell and
Lenovo notebooks come with Linux (never mind that you can install it
yourself above and beyond this.)
Put the Asus EEE PC with Linux next to version with XP
/ Vista, and
there is NO comparison - it even LOOKS like a cartoony toy.