This is from slashdot. The complete article is at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=209148&cid=17054900
Users are used to Windows. They are used to the programs that they
use in Windows. Why should they change? they don't buy Windows, they
buy a computer...with Windows.
That's a popular theory, but it smells dubious. So I tested it at one
site - all the desktops had OpenOffice, Thunderbird, and Firefox on them
when they were first installed, and not Outlook or MS Office, and IE was
carefully disabled (if it had been a problem, we could have had Office
installed later without any trouble).
That site has now been running for over a year.
Several of the users *never even noticed* that they weren't using
MS-ware. None of them cared. There has been no need to install any other
applications on any of the desktops.
(We're now planning to deploy Linux desktops at the next new site, and
not waste any more money on Windows licenses)
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Jerry Hubbard
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