Imagine this sales pitch between MS, and Linux.
MS Guy to director of finance in big company: Yes, we have a team of 60 developers activly working on our office suite
Linux Guy to same: We activly have 20k people devloping OUR office suite
MS Guy to director: We have a support service that is very low cost, and out telephone staff are specially trained to answer and question
Linux Guy: Our support is free, from the people that actually write our software, not from people that are trained to answer support queries
MS Guy: Our software is avalible in most retail outlets
Linux Guy: Out software os avalible anywhere with a net connection
MS Guy: FINE, go get linux then!!!
If only this happened in every major industry, linux would take over!
I think you are not very experienced in everyday's busyness life, because you forgot about big power, called corruption.
So more probably it'll look like this:
M$ Guy: Mr. finance director, if you buy OUR software, you can receive your bribe! You have just to say how many percent it should be ... ... Wooooooooooow!
Linux Guy: Mr. finance director, you can take OUR software free of charge! And therefore you'll not receive any back-hander, bribe, graft, bakshish, inducement or payola (or how are you calling it ) ... sorry, we cannot support your political party in next elections, etc.
And now what do you think, who is going to win?
It really must work like this, because othervise I cannot find any reasonable answer to this question:
"How is it possible, that governments and state apparatus of most countries in all over the world are spending billions $ for totaly unreliable and unsecure M$ software?"
noro
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