[wplug] Had it with linux

[Scott Bourns]

LOL - nice - got me.

Thanks.

On 4/1/04 11:44 AM, "Bill Moran" <wmoran at potentialtech.com> 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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