On 11/10/06, JJ Gitties <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 11/10/06, Patrick Shanahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> * JJ Gitties <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [11-10-06 13:23]:
> > I am migrating to Ubuntu because, the way I see it, if I am going to
> > use an alternative OS to "help the little guy who is trying to make a
> > difference". Then by golly, it better be a "little guy".
>
> You are just _threatening_, or you would be gone and unsubed.....
>
> Do it or get off the POT!
I am not kidding. My employer is a windows shop. I use linux for mostly
network analysis stuff, security scanning and the odd one of non-critical
server here and there. I always made them dish out for the boxes for
anything that got installed. It's a pittance compared to commerial apps and
they really didn't give a hoot, and I think I did my part to help keep SUSE
float. The last 10.1 box they bought is the last one they are buying until
Microsoft is out of SUSE's hair. It's probably going to be a BSD or some
other distro for any future deployments.
I also do a bit of consulting on the side. A lot of it is windows work, but
every once is a blue moon, there is a little linux and I always pushed SUSE
and the customer was happy. Same goes there. I am pushing something else
from now on.
Sorry, but this is ridiculous. Why in god's bloody name should *any* money
that on the surface goes to open source get re-channeled in any way to
Microsoft corp.
side note: This has nothing to do with me being anti-Microsoft. I make my
living from tech support. I persoanlly am too small a fish to make any
recommendations to a Microsoft frieldly managers and corporate types at the
top. I just do my job and collect my pay. And Microsoft products are just
fine to support. They have a great site devoted to helping you support their
products properly. It's completely seperate from my Linux fandom.
--
jjgitties,
"*We* need to convince OpenSUSE to fork, or let 'em die. To bad, it is a
wonderful Distro. But their parent company is NOT our friend."
You do realize that at least on the surface M$ paid Novell $300M today
in order to get $40M tomorrow. I don't know what kind of a stick
Novell was holding, but it sure looks like it was bigger than the one
M$ was holding.
Greg
--
Greg Freemyer
The Norcross Group
Forensics for the 21st Century
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