As yourself why you need to purchase EVEN ONE license for multiseat Linux. Is that really opensource?
Yes! ask Redhat. That is their business model and as far as I know no-one is accusing them of not being Open Source. Just because you have to pay money does not make something FOSS. That being said, I agree where possible if you can find an entirely FOSS alternative you should. I think Brian's main issue though is looking for a cheaper hardware/software solution, since he can no longer buy cheaper second hand PC's and turn them into thin-clients, and custom thin-clients work out more expensive than fat-clients in Uganda or have caveats such as the ncomputing solution. Brian, what about the idea of importing a batch of atom based units such as Aluetia? Then you have a multitude of choices for thin-clients. Openthinclient might be worth a look, I have given it a go, looks ok. Simon Vass Managing Director E-Tech Uganda Ltd http://www.etech.ug Tel: +256 (0) 312260620 or (0) 312260621 email: [email protected] skype: e-techservicedesk ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jake Markhus" <[email protected]> To: "Uganda Linux User Group" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, 31 October, 2011 4:05:35 PM Subject: Re: [LUG] Linux This Client Software Hey, Allow me as a long time Microsoft developer/user as well as an early Linux adopter 1999 to comment on the link posted. The product comparison should have said only one thing. That Multiseat Linux was/is cheaper than Multipoint Server 2011. I have access to Multipoint server fully licensed from Microsoft free for purposes of testing, demonstrating and feasibility studies. The only issue I found was getting the right hardware. Now, if one got hold of the right hardware for MS and had the right drivers for Linux, a lot of the alleged shortcomings of MS would be nullified. We as opensource advocates should look to the real issues. As yourself why you need to purchase EVEN ONE license for multiseat Linux. Is that really opensource? If we paid the company to come support and do the installation then that would make sense. Do not be deceived by marketing hype. The core issue is the price of the licenses and your end users. Ruth be told if you have enlightened users who know more about word-processing and spread sheets than they do about word and excel, then to cut down deployment costs you should go for multiseat Linux since after you get the OS and pay for the license then from that point onwards everything else is free (as in beer not as in speech). I think however, if you wanted to lower costs, just buy a number of cpus with no hard-drives, a custom usb or cdrom Linux distro that connects to your lan and presto!! 20 cdroms with Linux that when booted give you your environment. This is what I used when studying intrusion detection systems with silensec and I found it brilliant cause all you had to do was give students a cdrom and remind them to backup to flash before shutting down. Also the silensec guys had written scripts to configure the network and give us access to the server we alternatively attacked or defended against. Try that route first before forking out any money. Jeff Atwood the man behind Ubuntu.stackexchange.com once said, “never buy/invent what you can steal/get for free”. It is always my guide whenever I get a new project. To first see what else has been done by others bother free and paid Jake From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brian Ssennoga Sent: 31 October 2011 15:36 To: Uganda Linux User Group Cc: FBT; [email protected] Subject: [LUG] Linux This Client Software Hello FOSS People, In our (IHSU's) continued quest for a thin-client solution, we have landed on this - http://www2.userful.com/products/product-comparison/userful-multiseat-vs-windows-multipoint - I wonder, has anyone come across this before? Any prior experience we might want to learn from? We will surely go onto the free trials, as we await sales information, so we know how expensive/cheap it is. -- Love indeed conquers all..... Brian A. 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