> From: Simon Geard <[email protected]> > Date: Tue, 16 May 2017 22:57:04 +1200 > > On Tue, 2017-05-16 at 11:03 +0100, Richard Melville wrote: [...] > > > Recently, I saw Windows XP on a consultants terminal at a local > > hospital. When I expressed my concern, and disbelief, he just threw > > up his hands in a helpless manner and said that that was what he was > > stuck with. Now we've seen the results of that folly. > > My understanding is that that has little to do with Windows, and more > to do with the nature of the healthcare IT industry - lots of small > companies that sell something useful, but go out of business quite > quickly due to an inability to make money out of it. As such, hospitals > are full of unsupported old software - often tied to specialised > hardware - that can't easily be made to work on a newer OS. > > If the same companies released software for Linux, they'd be in the > same position... a binary-only solution that only works with a specific > RedHat version dating to 2005 or so. >
(There are ms-based softwares that have worked for 20+ years, and companies still making good money from them, with v.little/minimal u/g hassle, because there was/is throughout enough foresight to only use core facilities of the os.) akh -- -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page Do not top post on this list. A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style
