Whats FOSS ?
Virgil Bierschwale http://www.virgilslist.com http://www.tccutlery.com http://www.bierschwale.com http://www.bierschwalesolutions.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin Cully Sent: Friday, December 15, 2006 6:35 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [NF] microsoft_antipiracy_will_drive_people_to_linux Kids use Firefox and play some of the Flash based games on the Internet. They like some of the FOSS games on Linux too. My wife uses Thunderbird for mail, Firefox, OOo (Calc and Writer), and Internet Explorer (to get to the school's web site. Grrr). She's becoming quite the expert at The Gimp too to do some photo manipulations for the side job she has for landscape design. When a Windows install goes bad, I dread the hours it would take to re-install the OS plus all of the software. With Linux, if I want to get to the latest versions (I've never had a Linux install go "bad"), the process is literally a 25 minute install and that's with a re-format. Add an hour or two to re-install the required software. With that short of a cycle, all of a sudden, a re-install of the OS is a viable option again. Crazy, I know, but true! If I was growing a business (I like being a solo programming shop), I'd do Linux workstations, and FOSS in a heartbeat. Kevin Cully CULLY Technologies, LLC Sponsor of Fox Forward 2006! http://foxforward.net MB Software Solutions wrote: > What...Linux? My daughter and wife didn't want anything to do with > Open Office's Text Document program even though they only do simple > word processing. They've exactly the kind with the M$ marketing hooks > still in their cheeks. ;-) > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
