Stephen Russell wrote: > 2010/4/21 Ricardo Aráoz <[email protected]>: > >> Stephen Russell wrote: >> >>> Open Source is free as in Frustration. >>> >>> Don't let anyone lie to you and say that it is not. >>> >>> >>> >> Proprietary is expensive as in shit. >> Don't let anyone lie to you and say that it is not. >> We were sold this expensive closed source development system. We were >> robbed! It's worthless, filled with bugs, conceptual holes, bad to >> non-existent documentation, bad support, old techniques, etc.etc. >> > --------------------- > > At least you get what you pay for. Not here sadly. OTOH many, many times I got much more than I had payed for, specially with open source. Open Office rocks, so does PostgreSQL, Apache, Dabo, SPE, VirtualBox, Ubuntu (though I've had my issues), Thunderbird, Mozilla, etc.etc. All of these gave me more than a gazillion times what I paid for them.
> Instead you just fiddle the books > with fake reductions in actual hard costs yet you are exposed to > potential overtime or screw the salaried to keep working till it's > done. > > Time is money no matter how you want to hide it. Calling to get > answers about Sun-java is an experience our team says. > All of the work that these people do not achieve on a daily basis > because they have been dicking around with this hidden in your > accounting of the situation. In your GL you cannot measure non > completed work to the variety of customers this IT dept. has. > Yes....... I wonder who was the idiot who said LAMP held most of the internet. Obviously someone who does not have your sound judgment on open source topics (bad Ricardo). > Did you sue the vendor of that "expensive closed source development > system" or did your legal team say you have no ground to stand on? > Was it SAP? Bad Steve! > Nope. Still using it. You know, politics. I don't get to decide which tools to use... sigh. --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- _______________________________________________ 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.
