30 Aug
2008
30 Aug
'08
5:44 p.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ray Arachelian" <ray at arachelian.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 30, 2008 6:50 PM
Subject: Re: Free Linux and OpenOffice - even if your email address doesn't
end in .edu - (was Re: OT: Microsoft crazy academic deal)
Tony Mori wrote:
You respond to a 10-day old email, ignoring the 7-day stream that followed
it, and I'm ignorant?
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.
If only you had actually FOLLOWED the conversation last week...
FYI, It actually costs less to get full M$ support+maint than it does for
Linux...
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:
Proof?
You have GOT to be kidding... *I* mentioned both the linux AND XP versions
of the EEE PC, and compared them.
You even QUOTED me....
And then you "enlighten" me that there is also a linux version?
And I am the ignorant one, huh?
Um OK - I'll take that as a compliment, from you.
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.)
This is the EXACT reason that Doc said to drop the issue...
When someone like you has no decent argument, they need to resort to
insulting and name-calling.
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.