Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on December 18, 2003 03:55 AM
Obviously you haven't called for support from the software makers.
Ya - you can point all you want but will that solve you problem?
With Open Source you get so much more valuable help with much richer content then calling a support desk of some software maker and getting a secretary and passed on number of times before not solving you problem - but yet you can still point.
Being in IT for 15 years now - and having called software companies and having to find solutions with the opensource web resources I would have to give the nod to opensource. I have never had a problem that I could not find online and I have been using Linux since slackware was out before RedHat and computers had the dreaded isa bus and irq manual assignment.
I will take opensource web resources anytime over tech support of a company. It is great not to have to keep track of our support contract number or license key just to get the non-help. I didn't go to four years of college to keep track of license keys.
Oh and you better keep all your license keys handy when the BSA comes knocking and wants to audit your school. Ya - that is what I want my school adminstrators doing - keeping track of licenses instead of the children. Whats wrong with that picture. Its a computer put linux on it and forget it and when the BSA comes knocking tell them to fsck off!!!
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on December 18, 2003 03:55 AMYa - you can point all you want but will that solve you problem?
With Open Source you get so much more valuable help with much richer content then calling a support desk of some software maker and getting a secretary and passed on number of times before not solving you problem - but yet you can still point.
Being in IT for 15 years now - and having called software companies and having to find solutions with the opensource web resources I would have to give the nod to opensource. I have never had a problem that I could not find online and I have been using Linux since slackware was out before RedHat and computers had the dreaded isa bus and irq manual assignment.
I will take opensource web resources anytime over tech support of a company. It is great not to have to keep track of our support contract number or license key just to get the non-help. I didn't go to four years of college to keep track of license keys.
Oh and you better keep all your license keys handy when the BSA comes knocking and wants to audit your school. Ya - that is what I want my school adminstrators doing - keeping track of licenses instead of the children.
Whats wrong with that picture. Its a computer put linux on it and forget it and when the BSA comes knocking tell them to fsck off!!!
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