A Public Library's Linux Success Story

Posted by timothy on Wednesday May 5, 2004 @03:00AM from the miller-branch-rules dept.

Joe Barr writes "What with the spate of professionally PR-generated FUD coming out of Redmond about Linux not being open source, or Windows having a lower TCO, and - believe it or not - even a claim that Windows is more reliable, it's good to read about some real world, grass-root results of successful migrations from Windows to Linux. This story at NewsForge takes a look at the Howard County (Maryland) Public Library's roll-out of over 200 public-use PCs, which used to run on Windows and now run on a custom Linux distribution called Lumix."

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Seems pretty one-way to me... by RoLi · 2004-05-05 03:41 · Score: 1, Troll

Yeah right, I still recall Linus Torvalds, Stallman and Alan Cox saying stuff like "Windows is a cancer", "Windows is unamerican" and "Windows destroys jobs".
Oh wait...
It's funny that the Winlots generally use "some anonymous posters" of course without any actual references to prove that the OSS-community is evil, but seem to purposely forget the things Microsoft TOP MANAGEMENT (and NOT some random nameless posters who don't count anyway) said.