**************************************** * LUG meet on 12 Jan. 2003 @ VJTI ****************************************
On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Wrong presumption that initial capital costs is the only cost. As usage > increases, the costs for maintainence and security of data exceeds the > initial capital cost by orders of magnitude (now u know why M$ is trying to > change it's bussiness model). This is true for any user. The hassle of > keeping out worms and preventing random crashes is what will turn the shop > owner and home user to GNU/Linux. I guess you are assuming 3 things: 1. Worms/viruses are impossible under Linux 2. There are no free (beer) tools to combat worms/viruses under Windows 3. Random crashes are impossible in Linux IMHO *all* these assumptions are misleading and incorrect. Nikhil -- _______________________________________________ http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
