On Sat, Nov 17, 2007 at 09:27:37AM -0600, willhill wrote: > Do what makes you happy but don't be surprised when it's a pain in the neck > or > something like this gets your company sued:
I am not saying this will not be the case. And I don't disagree with the argument of *nix being technically superior to Windows. I do disagree with telling someone else how to run their business, unless you're a consultant being paid to do that very thing :). > The OP answered my straightforward question. You seem offended. Why? I was talking about the OP's OQ - not yours. And I assure you the last thing I am, is offended. If anything, I am amused. > > The most important component of a free market is free flow of information. > Without it people make the wrong choices and waste their resources on things > that don't work for them. I disagree because this is not how markets work. There is little benefit to forcing global knowledge on the system, the overhead is simply too great and requires constraints. Markets work because they are distributed and self governing - relying on local interactions to affect the whole. I do agree that free flow if information is vital, but I don't think you and I consider that the same thing here. You seem to wish for everyone to be aware of every choice they have all the time. You're also assuming that someone else's definition of "best" is the same as yours. Regarding the wasting of resources on bad decisions, this happens all the time! No one claims that free markets are efficient in the short term, and businesses fail /all/ the time because of poor decisions. The beauty of the free market is that it relies on these bad decisions just as much (if not more so) than good decisions. > > On Saturday 17 November 2007 9:14 am, B. Estrade wrote: > > all of the ppl who pay you (i.e., your clients) want Windows apps. So many > > OSS zealots seem to forget about the pressures of the free market and the > > long list of inferior products that have won over technically superior ones > > to dominate their respective market. > > > > The OP also asked a very straightforward question, and it didn't include, > > "..and please make me defend my design and business decisions". > > > > Brett > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General at brlug.net > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net -- B. Estrade HPC Enablement Group http://www.loni.org
