Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on March 10, 2007 02:47 PM
"...for many applications, it makes more sense for organizations with scarce resources and tight budgets to purchase software from a vendor they hold accountable for keeping the software up to date..."
And that's precisely why I dumped all Windows machines from my business and moved to Linux and Open Office. The vendor of the proprietary products I was using previously not only didn't understand the concept of accountability, but was actively replacing it with arrogance.
So I shelled out a whopping $50 for a Slackware Install set (even though I could have downloaded it for free... but Slackware has been rock solidly accountable for so many years I felt the expenditure was easily justified), downloaded O_O and some other tidbits I needed, tailored the configuration just the way I wanted it, created an image with partimage, and installed it on all 12 of my machines (ouch, what an expenditure of resources... a whole evening of my time and all I did was save probably several thousand dollars over the next few years).
You say this open source stuff may be dangerous to my network, but hey... I guess I just like living dangerously.
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Excellent point!
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on March 10, 2007 02:47 PMAnd that's precisely why I dumped all Windows machines from my business and moved to Linux and Open Office. The vendor of the proprietary products I was using previously not only didn't understand the concept of accountability, but was actively replacing it with arrogance.
So I shelled out a whopping $50 for a Slackware Install set (even though I could have downloaded it for free... but Slackware has been rock solidly accountable for so many years I felt the expenditure was easily justified), downloaded O_O and some other tidbits I needed, tailored the configuration just the way I wanted it, created an image with partimage, and installed it on all 12 of my machines (ouch, what an expenditure of resources... a whole evening of my time and all I did was save probably several thousand dollars over the next few years).
You say this open source stuff may be dangerous to my network, but hey... I guess I just like living dangerously.
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