John McKown wrote: >Just a few short years ago, there was a possibility you might lose credibility >by bringing up open source as a possible solution for an IT problem.
Who said that in the first place? That article author or someone else? >As 2015 draws to a close, it’s more likely that you will lose credibility for >not bringing up open. This doesn’t mean the decisions or the outcomes are >closer to being right, but at least there’s a respectable debate going on. >Us old-times should like this. We hated OCO. FOSS is the antithesis of OCO. Yup! Some threads on IBM-MAIN are the results of being using OCO... >Disclosure: I'm an FSF associate member ( http://www.fsf.org/ ). IMO, it's >$20/month well spent. Indeed. I see an interesting article there - Free your PC from Windows! Close the Windows, Open the Doors. Go Open! <Warning - if you're paranoid - don't read further!> Windows systems XP, 7, 8, 10 have all these automatic scheduled events designed to send telemetry and private data to micro$oft. Something about 'experience, usage of licensed software, surfing habits, USB usage, etc.) You have to dig deeeeeep, way deeeeep to delete or disable them all. It is also designed to make your PC or Laptop sooooo slooooow. Then there are those Win 7 patches which install secretly Win 10 components and eating up your hard-disk so you can upgrade 'automatically'. Micro$oft initially made those patches 'required' until they got complaints, they are now 'optional'. You can get rid of them for always. Open Source does not have these crappy windoze things. Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
