On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Russell Hires wrote:
> Can I get a witness to the original article! .... No....well, why not? All
> good rebuttals here, Mike...
The article is FUD from the Micro-philes; a priest arguing celebacy
is great to a frat house, here.
Actually better still, consider the thinknic.com units -- $200 for a
chassis, OS, sound, ethernet, keyboard, mouse, modem -- all but the
monitor -- and ISO images available for customizing in your own
desktop in a corporate environment, all under the GPL -- are awfully
tempting -- no SPA piracy police, no license woes, no 'tinkering' by
end users, no virus worries, negligible cost of install to get
going. SSH will work in the Netscape with the mindterm client for
terminal access. Web-collaboration tools - contact manager,
scheduler, directory are maturing well in the Open Source world.
I was building a proposal for a customer to make the switch,
finally, away from Windows, to *nix X-tops -- pricing is a no
brainer -- support is easier --
-- Russ
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