On Thursday 23 November 2006 15:11, J Collett wrote: > >Also Linux is getting very good indeed. Pity I have to service Windows > >users to make a dollar. > > But, Greg... > > You wouldn't make as many dollars if everyone used Linux!
Au contraire. Once you have a robust self-maintaining operating system that *encourages* and facilitates automatizing tasks, people start discovering that computers can be a very useful time saving tool rather than the time wasting glorified type writer they are used to. They discover scripting, they can't do it themselves - they hire a programmer to get work done. Instead of shoving your bundles of money down the insatiable throats of the shrink wrap crapulates for software that does not solve theproblems you never had before, you pay individual software craftspeople to solve your problems for you in a lasting way. Free software generates work for individual IT people and saves work for end users. Shrinkwrap crapware from lock-in vendors generates predicatble revenue for the vendors and little else but problems and costs for the end users. Horst _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
