On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 5:53 PM, bipin kumar <bipin...@gmail.com> wrote: > look you are going overboard over decisions that normal in a > enterprise/organization. these decisions are result of deliberation > within the organization, and outside advisors. further theses > decisions are also influenced by the organizational need, its > financial condition etc. heck you yourself has stated that govt is > going ahead with a custom solution for their purpose which means that > this solution is optimized for their purpose, i repeat their purpose. > these might include customizing the os specific to hardware/software > set to get their job done. for chrissake these systems are meant to do > official job and not for ordinary use such as watching movies. playing > games. > > still if you are convinced about role of linux in an enterprise just > check out the business model and the client list of companies such as > Redhat, Canonical, IBM etc > > this is how redhat/canonical makes money. they don't sell the os. > instead they charge for the customer support/service. i.e tailoring > the os to meet the customers need. > > earlier you were crying foul about lack of support in linux. if you > want good customer support just pay for it or else be content with the > community support with distros which i should say is doing a fine job > under the circumstances > > Remember "there is nothing as free lunch".
+100 Regards Rajeev J Sebastian -- "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ilug-tvm" group. To control your subscription visit http://groups.google.co.in/group/ilug-tvm/subscribe To post to this group, send email to ilug-tvm@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to ilug-tvm-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For details visit the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en
