It's all a matter of business. OSS stands to make MS people lose business deals and therefore that makes them defensive and consequently offensive.
It doesn't matter whether OSS or proprietary is better, at the end of the day the only thing that matters is simply can we afford to even at least feed ourselves? No point fighting and be a jihadist for OSS when you can't even afford roti canai. At this point in time, you will see that MS will argue only on price points. And that is what people will look at during recession. Go out and spread the fact. But act professionally and not like some fanatic. That's the problem with many OSS people...sometimes too damn passionate (me included) and scare away more conservative users. Eric On Jun 5, 10:26 pm, ApOgEE <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 8:07 PM, Izhar Firdaus <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > > > > On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 8:03 PM, Harisfazillah Jamel > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 7:48 PM, ApOgEE<[email protected]> wrote: > > >> I bet, apart from being resistant to change and try new things, the last > > >> phrase scares away the prospect... > > > >> "On the other end, proponents of proprietary software counter that while > > >> open-source software is mostly free, its users often have to pay high > > fees > > >> for technical support." > > > >> ;O Why don't they mention the LoCo & LUG support? > > > because that type of support is not easily categorized as a service > > product. hard to justify spending, etc. and through local groups, its > > hard to put a person responsible in case of failures. > > > pay for service, and blame the service provider if something fail :) > > but if its free, who to blame? :P > > service cost for an outsource IT support isn't much different for both > proprietary and opensource solution. why the heck should they mention that > OSS solution service is high fees? that obviously bias article. > > As for internal IT dept, they should learn to work with OSS so they will be > able to master or even customize their own system. That's the idea of having > the source code to play with. > > -- > Best Wishes, > > ApOgEE a.k.a JeRuNgKuN > ----------------------------------------------------https://edge.launchpad.net/~apogee- > ApOgEE on LaunchPadhttp://artofapogee.blogspot.com- Art Of > ApOgEEhttp://coderstalk.blogspot.com- Coder's Talk > ---------------------------------------------------- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Join Open Source Developers Club Malaysia http://www.osdc.my/ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "OSDC.my Mailing List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/osdcmy-list?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
