Orlando Andico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > OTOH I believe that Linux TCO really WOULD be higher than Windows for > shops which are pure Windows to start with. Re-training is expensive, > and Windows licenses CAN be cheap, depending on how much pull you > have...
Indeed. So I guess trying to get small- and medium-sized internet
cafés to migrate from Windows to FOSS (be it Linux or BSD) is a rather
tall pipe dream, don't you think? =( Not only would such shops consider
retraining, but the overall maintenance of the FOSS machines with
respect to hardware and software support as well. ;)
Still, as far as pipe dreams go, I think adventurous capitalists with a
clue for FOSS could realize a Linux-based café *now* as current
Linux/FOSS alternatives for user apps are at par with, if not surpass,
commercial products; or, at the very least, they can have their shops
run Mozilla{, Firefox} instead of IE...
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