On Sep 6, 2005, at 8:08 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 02:11:51PM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote
My 'disagreement', if there is one, is that a savings of $300 for a
new computer and a $99 Windows upgrade won't convince many people to
learn to do it themselves using Linux. It takes a much stronger
reason
than that, at least in my limited part of the planet.
How about "the hard truth"...
Admiinistering Linux is hard.
Keeping a Windows machine free of spyware is harder.
amen brother....can I get a witness? As an independent technical
consultant, I make most of my money, unfortunately, cleaning windows
computers of spyware. In most of those cases, any old linux desktop
with openoffice would fit their needs, but they've bought the
marketing. In most of those cases, the amount of money they'd have
paid me to do the "up front" administering, would have been less.
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