Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> When Lintel beats Wintel
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>> As asked that's a no brainer: if you're not dumb enough to pay
>> someone like Red Hat to impose a license on you, Linux really is
>> free - meaning that it's always possible to get Linux for less than
>> Windows.
>>
>> To extend that simple argument over the life time of the system you
>> need to make a lot of assumptions - but reasonable assumptions
>> produce reasonable results: i.e. if you're fair about the
>> assumptions, Wintel falls further and further behind Lintel as you
>> extend the time frame simply because the cost of acquiring,
>> installing, and supporting Linux applications is always less than
>> that for Wintel applications.
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> http://blogs.zdnet.com/Murphy/?p=1094&tag=nl.rSINGLE
Where is Wintel "falling further and further behind" Lintel? Nowhere.
It's a joke. Linux "advocates" think that because they're broke everyone
else is, and saving a few hundred dollars on software is enough of a bribe
to overcome the famous kualitee of open source (cr)apps.
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