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Sell Your Computers, Keep Paying MS For Licenses
An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft Licensing 6.0 requires a company to pay up on software maintenance when the computers that are covered under the license are sold off. Here's the kicker though: MS is no longer obligated to provide maintenance even though the contract is paid up! Read the Infoworld article."
You honestly think one can't do buisiness using a Macintosh? Mac OS X is every bit as usuable as Windows, some may argue more so. There is certainly Mac software to fill about any need you can think of, and free high quality development tools just in case you find the odd thing that someone isn't currently supporting on the Mac.
Don't believe me? Go to VersionTracker and take a look at all the software you could ever want for that platform.
True Apple does have licensing as well, but it's not near as arduous as Microsoft's, that and Apple supports open source far more than Microsoft ever has or ever will.
When you factor in software and hardware costs, using the Mac isn't so much more expensive given that even though the hardware costs more, you get far better terms on licensing, that and your support costs are a lot less given that Mac's don't break down near as often as PC's. It may even be less, I remember a study which showed total cost of ownership of a network of Mac's was less than comparable PC's using Windows, but I can't remember where it was.
--Won't that be grand? Computers and the programs will start thinking and the people will stop. - Dr. Walter Gibbs
OK,
How does April 23rd sound ?
Seriously. It's fine to say 'we should', we see
that alot on slashdot (phone your political rep. etc.). Let's do something. Pick your favourite
vendor that doesn't support linux yet, call them
on April 23rd.
I think we (slashdot readers) have more influence
than we often think we do.