[TriLUG] RE: This is what happens when a OS company shootsitsself in the foot (MS Vista)

[David McDowell]

I run http://www.turnpike420.net on LAMP and I think that
http://www.turnpike420.net is awesome, and it's awesome b/c
http://www.turnpike420.net runs LAMP and I created
http://www.turnpike420.net with that idea in mind.  I mean, should I
add one more just for good measure?  I don't want any search engines
to think I don't exist.  Click here http://www.turnpike420.net to
visit http://www.turnpike420.net !

</sarcasm>

and thus ends my bah-humbug material for today.

:)


On 12/27/06, Jim Ray <jim at neuse.net> wrote:
> Me thinks we would serve our personal and business interests well by using
> the platform of choice.  I use Linux and Windows.  http://www.neuse.net will
> more likely than not always be on Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP; desktops
> will more likely than not always be on Windows until many applications get
> ported over.
>
> I refuse to pay client access licenses for hanging my web site on the
> Internet.
>
> Direct costs of software my be fixed.  Indirect costs of paying the people
> to code it is not.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
> Behalf Of
> > Cristobal Palmer
> > Sent: Tuesday, December 26, 2006 4:34 PM
> > To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
> > Subject: Re: [TriLUG] RE: This is what happens when a OS company
> shootsitsself
> > in the foot (MS Vista)
> >
> > On 12/26/06, Jim Ray <jim at neuse.net> wrote:
> > > because it pays the bills and has 93% of the
> > > market share according to webstats
> >
> > And depending on your reasoning/motivation, that may be perfectly
> > valid. For me, the social impact of allowing a monopoly to own our
> > data is not an externality. Allowing a business to sell what is
> > essentially a fixed-cost item as if there were high marginal costs at
> > the expense of many little guys is not an externality.
> >
> > /me gets back to work writing on a free platform using free tools.
> >
> > Thanks and Happy Holidays to all,
> >
> > --
> > Cristobal M. Palmer
> > UNC-CH SILS Student -- ils.unc.edu/~cmpalmer
> > TriLUG Vice Chair
> > "There are many roads to enlightenment, and thus many roads back to
> > the One True Debian" --crimsun
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