On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 20:25 +0800, Dean Michael Berris wrote: > It doesn't make sense to lower the count of Windows based machines in > government because if it works for them, why do we need to change it?
[snipped] >Because Windows is a very insecure OS? >Why should our government pay to safeguard Microsoft's market share? If it works for them and they see no reason to change it, why should they change from Windows? If the Open sopurce community wants more to convert to Linux, they must add value to the software. The government must see some value in changing its OS from Windows to Linux, if they cant find any value in it they will not. This is the same for everyone. Whether it is lower TCO, security etc. value must be there. Microsoft may have a lot of problems with security, but its still number one, companies like IBM, Novell and Redhat may complain all they want, but what have they done to topple that monopoly? IBM screwed up OS/2, Novell and RedHat's market share isnt something to scream about either. Microsoft does make products which we may hate, which is insecure, which has a lot of problems, but the fact is people use it because it simply works. Which should what OSS software should be, I have not had a system from Linux work out of the box, I ve tried redhat, suse and Ubuntu (which we use). They all needed some tweakingone way or another. I could juct buy an Apple machine or a Lenovo or Dell PC and it will work with out network. The government is not paying to safeguard Microsofts market share, it uses microsoft because it is the only thing the government knows how to use, and it works with minimum fuss especially on the desktop. [snipped] > And if we do put Linux on every government machine, where does the > government get the support for it? Canonical, RedHat, Novell, IBM, > Sun? How is that in line with the government's agenda to help out the > constituency and the local economy? >Sticking with Windows doesn't exactly help. Your right sticking with windows does not help, but you have to show them that there is an alternative. _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
