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> The NT people cleaned off all my work and destroyed the scripts
> I'd written
> (including stuff to help manage the DHCP in a sane manner) -
> which was 3 weeks
> of my work done over about 6 days. I was livid. I wasn't
> consulted beforehand
> by anyone and although the system was working, the word was that
> the headmistress
> didn't understand it because it didn't look like the windoze
> boxes she was used
> to seeing and so "it had to go, because we can't support it". I
> had already offered
> my support for free as the school was only down the road and I
> didn't mind since
> I figured I was doing my bit for Open Source.
>
> It turned out that the NT people were charging the school an
> exorbitant sum
> on an hourly rate and they didn't like the fact that I was
> showing them up,
> for free so they rubbished Linux and my work so they could cadge
> extra hours
This sounds silly, but principals and other execs are really nervous about
'free support', they worry that it will not be available or that there is
something wrong. Remember that these people are educators who are given the
task of administering a 'small business' with well over a million dollars
turnover with no prior, on-going or future training or help. You have to
appeal to the educator more than the accountant in them. PS if that was the
High School just down the road fromwhere you work, it was probably my first
school.
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