On Wednesday 30 June 2004 02:28 am, franki wrote: > Ronald J. Hall wrote: > > On Wednesday 30 June 2004 01:32 am, M.Schild wrote: > > -> > > ->> What I don't understand is why there isn't a backlash from cities > > around ->> the world? I mean, if I was the mayor/gov. of a city and saw > > MS giving 60 ->> percent discounts to another place, you can be sure I'd > > be demanding the ->> same for my fair 'burg... :-) > > -> > > -> > > ->That's also what I thought and what other cities will do though that > > sort of ->mentality would make me choose Linux > > ->Maryse > > > > I guess I'm cruel (compared to MS? Heh!) but if I were the mayor and > > negotiating with MS I'd hold out till they offered that huge discount, > > and then once they were crawling, I'd go with Linux anyways. ;-) > > Actually, this "might" be of benefit to us. > > If Paris went with a mandrake solution, it would probably be based on > 9.2 or 10, and they would definately not go for it if it was only > supported for 1.5 years.. so Mandrake might expand support for whichever > they go for.. after all, they will have to create the updates and stuff > anyway, might as well provide them to us as well. > > Then again, for that kind of job, they will probably make a cut down > simplified install of mdk, so it might not make any difference to us at > all. :-( hell I think MDKsoft has it figured out that with a free OS, the way to go is in renting computers, including the latest, greatest but most imortant, stabilist OS, rent a box for 2 years what a M$ "OS" costs. -- linux counter #167806
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