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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.