Well, for personal use, it is partial money issue. But for in the corporate environment, it is a big issue, because developing with Microsoft very expensive. Microsoft charges per head for development softwares. With Linux, you can develop for free with Java, Perl, etc.
On Sunday 30 March 2003 01:47 pm, Marc Oestreicher wrote: > I guess it is partially about money for me. A few years ago when I knew > almost nothing about computers I was more or less forced to buy a computer > with windoze 98 installed, to the best of my knowledge that was the only > thing available on any name brand computer and I sure did not know enough > at the time to build my own at that time. I latter found out about the way > that microsoft strong arms computer manufactures into building and selling > only machines with windoze products installed. I also found out a hell of a > lot of other things about how microsoft does business and none were to my > liking. Due to the fact that my first machine came with windoze 98 > installed I have a windoze 98 disk that I could use on any of the machines > that I own now. It would be a bit unstable, need to waste resources on > virus protection and have a number of security holes ECT but it would be > capable of doing anything that I wanted to do. > However I would much rather spend a few dollars on a operating system > done by a honest decent company than continue to use stuff done by a > dishonest corrupt monolopy. I was involved in cooperate America long enough > to understand microsoft style business practices and I prefer not to > support that sort of company in any way shape or form!!!
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