Please forgive a little off-topic remarks, which I cann't resist. Am Dienstag, 11. Dezember 2007 15:34:46 schrieb Ryan Malayter: > Hardware is cheap. Even software is realtively cheap in most cases. > *People* are expensive.
I'd rather phrase that comparision into "people are the most valuable". > This is why IT departments worldwide continue to pay their money to > Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, etc. in spite of the "free" alternatives. And in this way they fail to upgrade their most valuable resource - they fail to educate, train and teach their own employees, neighbour- freelancers and finally even their kids (because opensource is _the_ chance to learn computing from experts). When one compares the situation on the national level, it becomes clear, that this attitude (valueing money more than people) even adds more misery to the poor countries, while transferring and protecting the wealth of the rich. A manager who was not seeing and considering these side-effects is not a manager, but simply an accountant, IMO. Opensource requires more manpower than capital, that's one of it's advantages. Excuse the sidestep. I would have exploded if I'd kept silent here ;) Michael _______________________________________________ timekeepers mailing list [email protected] https://fortytwo.ch/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo/timekeepers
