Mark Sometimes one is forced to attach a price to the Open Source software if you want to win a bid. Guys just cant get it, when they see an invoice or proposal reflecting that "Software - FREE". They immediately relegate your proposal to the doldrums taking your offer to be a JOKE.
Wire > On Friday 16 July 2004 11:25, joseph mpora wrote: >> So I did succeed in starting a flame :) Nothing like flames to make a >> geek's day (esp ones directed at M$ users) > > We shall always have M$ users (it's where the money comes from), so > maybe another approach to solving their problem, rather than blaming > the breakage of the Internet on them, would be welcome :). > >> >> It is nice to know it is taken care of though. > > I hope so. > >> >> Now could we interest you in a Sendmail (yes am a fan of the good old >> giant) installation? Now that we have alerted you to the symptoms of >> your disease, we offer you the cure and its all free (that's free as >> in <I forget, is it beer or speech, or is is speech after beer>, let >> me take a cup of coffee first) of charge (lol :)) > > One thing I've got to learn throughout my experience is that as much as > many of us may think evil M$ is an inferior product, there are many > other people and corporates that think M$ is the best thing that ever > happenned to the world since the canned beef. > > Businesses spend millions of shillings/dollars on M$ products each year > around the world, and the mention of open source, more so, a FREE > product that will only cost man hours doesn't make sense to them. > > All this means that trying to get Raymond to have his guys move over to > some open source product will be difficult, and probably won't be his > fault, but he can try. > > Let's not hold our breaths in anticipation, though. > > Mark. > >> >> Joseph >> >> On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 12:08, Mark Tinka wrote: >> > On Friday 16 July 2004 10:59, Hari Kurup wrote: >> > > Oi, >> > > >> > > If it was a genuine notification from your exchange server, it >> should not claim to be from [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > > Should it? >> > >> > Perhaps the evil Exchange is also infected! >> > >> > I know it was mentioned the evil Exchange is running the anti-virus >> software, but perhaps that software should be running on the Postfix >> box. If a virus sat on that box, it would less or no harm as >> compared to if it sat on an evil Window$ box. >> > >> > Mark. >> > >> > Mark. >> > >> > > Kurup >> > > >> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> > > >Gys, what happened is, I joined the mailing list using >> > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED], and all my mail is being forwarded to >> > > > apepuganda.org which has postfix relaying to ms exchange, the >> exchange has an antivirus which was set to notify the sender >> when a virus is found, (taken care of that now). Someone on the >> list sent a message with VBS_BAGLE.GEN virus! >> > > > >> > > >Sorry again for that ;) >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > >--------------------------------------------- >> > > >This service is hosted on the Infocom network >> > > >http://www.infocom.co.ug >> > > >> > > --------------------------------------------- >> > > This service is hosted on the Infocom network >> > > http://www.infocom.co.ug >> > >> > --------------------------------------------- >> > This service is hosted on the Infocom network >> > http://www.infocom.co.ug >> >> --------------------------------------------- >> This service is hosted on the Infocom network >> http://www.infocom.co.ug > > > --------------------------------------------- > This service is hosted on the Infocom network > http://www.infocom.co.ug -- "Although about 3 million computers get sold every year in China, but people don't pay for the software," he said. "Someday they will, though. As long as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade." Bill Gates as Quoted by C|Net News.com --------------------------------------------- This service is hosted on the Infocom network http://www.infocom.co.ug
