[wplug] Had it with linux
Bill Moran
wmoran at potentialtech.com
Thu Apr 1 11:44:19 EST 2004
Is there an anti-troll rule for this list? Can we ban people that post
useless trolls like this, please.
Sean McCune wrote:
> I've had it. There were these SuSE problems, now Red Hat's pulled the
> plug on 9.0 support at RHN. There's just too much mickey-mouse stuff
> going on in linux today. For professional work I'm just going to have
> to go all Microsoft again. At least their update service works. And
> they do fix their problems, eventually. The cost is really negligible
> for businesses. And besides, I'm a developer, I can get the stuff from
> the for practically free... all I have to do is say "linux". :)
>
> As for my clients. Who cares what they have to pay for Microsoft.
> That's not coming out of my bottom line. They're all big companies with
> fat bank accounts.
>
> And, as a developer and business owner, I can just ride the coat-tails
> of the Microsoft marketing machine. I can practically get guaranteed
> business doing that.
>
> As for free as in freedom... thpthpthpthpt. No one, especially in
> business, cares about that. Its free as in beer that has driven Linux
> this far in the biz world. And now its just becoming too unmanageable
> and time consuming to deal with, which has overcompensated for the free
> as in beer part.
>
> Business is about doing the work and making enough money to pay
> employees, invest in the business, and have profit left over. At least
> Microsoft has a business model for themselves and third-party developers
> that unashamedly allows for that.
>
> The sound you hear is the plastic box that contains Win2K3 Server being
> opened.
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Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
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