[wplug] Had it with linux

[Teodorski, Chris]

Check your calendar.


-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Moran [mailto:wmoran at potentialtech.com] 
Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 11:44 AM
To: General user list
Subject: Re: [wplug] Had it with linux

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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