[wplug] Had it with linux

[Robert E. Coutch]

HAHAHAHA

You should have added that in order to keep your total cost of ownership low,
you would simply make copies of all the MS software you need.

You wouldn't believe the amount of April fools stuff going on "talk radio" 
today.

-Bob

On Thursday 01 April 2004 11:38 am, 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.
>
> McC
>
>
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