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Ret. World Bank CTO on Desktop Linux TCO Facts

Posted by timothy on from the illusion-of-choice dept.

comforteagle writes "W. McDonald Buck, retired CTO of World Bank, believes we need to take a more honest and frank look at the Cost Analyses it will take to put Linux on the corporate desktop. In Part I of Corporate Desktop Linux - The Hard Truth he begins with one of the most common misconceptions... that a business can buy a computer without Windows and save money in the transaction."

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  1. These are the guys that prey on the poor. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    These are the guys that prey on the poor.
    Their job is to privatize social services.
    Of course they want to reenforce the power
    of their corporate sponsors.

    No wonder people protest whenever they
    meet.