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* LUG meet on 12 Jan. 2003 @ VJTI
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On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Wrong presumption that initial capital costs is the only cost. As usage
> increases, the costs for maintainence and security of data exceeds the
> initial capital cost by orders of magnitude (now u know why M$ is trying to
> change it's bussiness model). This is true for any user. The hassle of
> keeping out worms and preventing random crashes is what will turn the shop
> owner and home user to GNU/Linux.


I guess you are assuming 3 things:

1. Worms/viruses are impossible under Linux

2. There are no free (beer) tools to combat worms/viruses under Windows

3. Random crashes are impossible in Linux

IMHO  *all* these assumptions are misleading and incorrect.


Nikhil


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