On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 11:36:35 AM -0400, Jack Gates
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> Who do you work for that demands that you use only software that has
> to be purchased and has such a militant attitude against using free
> software?
Probably for one of the millions of businesses worldwide that still:
- want/must to know who to sue when something goes wrong and believe
that if software is purchased one can successfully sue its vendor
- have outsorced anything software to external companies which only
send kids as support personnel who only know windows
- have outsorced anything software to external companies which
offer integrated sw/hw packages at "reduced" costs thanks to
worldwide agreements with MS.
- are more or less consciously convinced that gratis = worthless or
defective, second hand...
- any combination of the above
- must exchange complex files in proprietary Windows-only formats
with organizations that do the above (that is, still the majority
of medium/large corporations and public administrations).
Please let's not waste time to discuss and prove how stupid this is.
It is still, by far, the most common situation, unfortunately. And
very often it is even wrong to call it "militant attitude", implying a
conscious choice. It often happens out of ignorance and strong desire
to NOT wanting to know anything about what's inside computers.
Ciao,
Marco
--
Marco Fioretti mfioretti, at the server mclink.it
Fedora Core 5 for low memory http://www.rule-project.org/
Give up vows and dogmas, and fixed things, and you may ... come to
think a blow bad, because it hurts, and not because it humiliates.
You may come to think murder wrong, because it is violent, and not
because it is unjust. -- G. K. Chesterton. "The Ball and the Cross"
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