At 11:23 AM 3/10/2008 -0500, Stephen Russell wrote: >On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 12:08 PM, Charlie Coleman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > At 09:32 AM 3/10/2008 -0500, Stephen Russell wrote: > > >On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 10:25 AM, Charlie Coleman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > > > > At 02:06 PM 3/10/2008 +0000, Alan Bourke wrote32: > > > > >Charlie Coleman wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > Nothing is free from MS dude. > ... > > > > >Do you complain that you have to register your car every year and possibly > > >pay property tax on it? ... > > > > LOL. It's not that they're charging, it's that you lied about it and said > > it was "free". > > >-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >What did I lie about? You have a PC on the desktop and it has Windows? Or >that your connected to a server at work and there is Windows2003 on it?
I believe you stated that there were report writers for free.... IF you have .Net or IF you have SS, etc. My response was somewhat tongue-in-cheek, but pretty accurate. Nothing is free from MS. Their goal is lock-in to make you purchase things sooner or later. Contrast that with Open Source alternatives. I learned my lesson years ago when I first though Internet Explorer was "free." You don't mind the expense of MS because you don't care if it costs your customers (or all the computer industry) needless thousands (or millions). As for there "cost of change", yep, every time MS releases a patch, there are hundreds of man-hours at each MS-using site that get spent trying to mitigate the damage. Not to mention the thousands of man-hours at each MS site spent on new OS upgrades (downgrades?) from MS. Some companies are getting it.... they'll go through the "change cost" to get to Linux and then save tons of money on all the future-avoided "change costs." But, as usual, there's no convincing an MS-fanboy. ;-) -Charlie _______________________________________________ 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 Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** 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.
