[TriLUG] Open Source Empowerment

[Jim Ray]

MS doesn't do the fixing.  never deal with a fixer that doesn't care about
the customer.  you aren't locked into one fixer no matter what OS you use.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org]On
> Behalf Of Tanner Lovelace
> Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 1:42 PM
> To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
> Subject: [TriLUG] Open Source Empowerment
>
>
> I disagree here.  With Open Source you have the opportunity to teach
> yourself what you need to do to fix whatever problem you have.  Or,
> you can find someone else and pay them (or barter or persuade, if you
> want) to do it for you.  You can't do this with MS at all.  That's
> a huge difference.  You aren't locked into one vendor who probably
> doesn't care that much about you.
>
> Tanner