Skip to comments.
Vista's licensing speeds NSW govt move to Linux desktops
Linux World ^
| 2005-09-29
| Julian Bajkowski
Posted on 10/01/2005 12:59:08 PM PDT by N3WBI3
click here to read article
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 41-60, 61-80, 81-100, 101-111 last
To: Golden Eagle
Take a look through these, see if you can find the truth about what's really going on with open source software. Those damn anti-American commies supporting free software!
To: antiRepublicrat
Are you claiming there's no commies in the US government? I'd say there's plenty starting right in the halls of Congress.
To: Golden Eagle
Are you claiming there's no commies in the US government?
Loads of them in the NSA I'm sure. The government just loves to hand out TS/SCIs to known commies.
To: Golden Eagle
Prove most MS customers buy additional support, else I am completely correct.
I've worked for a very large news organization and currently work for a very, very large financial firm. Both of which maintain large support contracts with Microsoft for the same reason we do with SuSE. Corporate accountability. If you run a large, publically traded, company and don't have IT accountability with your vendors, you're not running a very tight ship. Or did you not read and absorb any of my posts above?
104
posted on
10/04/2005 11:36:43 AM PDT
by
Bulwark
To: Bulwark
Good for you. Now you and the other poster get together and prove most businesses do so, if you think you can. The link above I gave show only 2% of business who use open source actually subscribe to those vendors, and I wouldn't be surprised if the numbers who buy support from MS in advance is a similar figure.
To: antiRepublicrat
Loads of them in the NSA I'm sure. The government just loves to hand out TS/SCIs to known commies. You think you're not investigated before entering Congress? ROFL
To: Golden Eagle
You think you're not investigated before entering Congress? ROFL An elected Congresscritter is in there no matter what any investigation shows since the voters elected him in accordance with the Constitution, which supersedes any security laws or directives. All they can do is not allow a commie Congresscritter access to classified information.
Nobody works in the NSA without a clearance.
To: antiRepublicrat
108
posted on
10/04/2005 12:24:22 PM PDT
by
N3WBI3
(If SCO wants to go fishing they should buy a permit and find a lake like the rest of us..)
To: N3WBI3
Not to mention these commies Oh My God!!! We're all communist sympathizers!
To: Golden Eagle
The link above I gave show only 2% of business who use open source actually subscribe to those vendors, and I wouldn't be surprised if the numbers who buy support from MS in advance is a similar figure.
There's a difference between 2% of *total* vendors and 2% by weight. If a company like Aetna paid SuSE for support, that's worth more than 10 'joe smith's webshoppe development center'. Your problem is counting all companies with the same weight. Nice try, but you lose. :)
110
posted on
10/04/2005 12:59:58 PM PDT
by
Bulwark
To: Bulwark
Nice try, but you lose. :) I've been winning all along, and will until you prove Microsoft support contracts have either stayed steady if not gone up as their products matured. I know for a fact they've gone down, so good luck proving the opposite.
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 41-60, 61-80, 81-100, 101-111 last
Disclaimer:
Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual
posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its
management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the
exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson