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Advocating Linux / OSS to Management.
An anonymous reader writes "I'm the Senior Developer at a fairly large agency, we're currently a 100% LAMP shop, but I've heard a reliable report through the grapevine that the management a few levels above our office wants to standardize our region on MS .NET. As I'm sure most of you can appreciate, to do such a thing would be... counterproductive, and I could really do with a hand conveying this to a manager whose only real knowledge of Linux is "if it's so good, why would you give it away for free"?"
MS is the hooker who wants $50 more for anal. You end up paying because of all the promises (s)he made but soon realize your mistake when MS calls her(his) pimp (we'll call him FBI) comes in and beats you into unconsciousness for not having a valid license. When you wake up, your money is gone, your respect is gone and you feel cheap and used. On your next visit to your doctor, you also find that MS left you with a very nasty social disease.
So you'd advocate fighting FUD with FUD? Brilliant!
Very valid argument. Incidentally, any of you with girlfriends that are providing you with free sex should carefully consider this. The streetwalkers in your nearest city must be better because otherwise they would not be able to charge for it. While your girlfriend might be OK for some amateur playing around, if you are looking to become serious and marry, you need to find someone who is professional about this.
Step 1: Tell them it's $150 a license for Linux Super Ultra.
Step 2: pocket $150 a license.
Step 3: profit.
"Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber" -- Plato