On Nov 15, 2008, at 2:29 AM, Rockingham500 wrote:
> I would not advocate running anything that is supposedly free on > important systems. > > If you wanted to travel 1000 miles, and the options were to: either, > take a flight on a commercial airline that has been going for 20 > years, is 100% reliable, provides an excellent support service and is > focused on commercial air travel... but at a reasonable price. > > Or... , take a trip in a plane that may or may not get you there, is > inexperienced, provides no support... but that's not a problem because > this plane can also turn in to a car, or a boat?.... but the good news > it's FREE :o) A valid point, if you omit the parts about how the Commercial airlines keep blowing up in midair, and require you to buy their luggage to board, and the free airlines are being flown by the same people making them, so they have a vested interest in keeping them flying. Linux,. Apache, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Perl/Python/Ruby/PHP make the web go round, all free, open source software. If you're avoiding FOSS based on this attitude, you're missing a hell of a lot of good stuff, and paying way too too much for inferior software. -- Bruce Johnson U of Az College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions don't have opinions, merely customs --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "StrataList-OT" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/StrataList-OT?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
