[wplug] Had it with linux

[Bill Moran]

Bryon Gill wrote:
> I think for 364 days out of the year such a rule is in effect...

Jagoffs ... ;)

> 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.



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