[wplug] Had it with linux

[Bryon Gill]

I think for 364 days out of the year such a rule is in effect...

On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Bill Moran wrote:

> 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.
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Bill Moran
> Potential Technologies
> http://www.potentialtech.com
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