Your just saying what?
I thought I was pretty clear; MS and Bill Gates give generously to non-profits.
Clear enough yet?
You can do more for free with OO products.
That's fine. Like I told an earlier poster, go out and *prove* this to the many billion dollar companies running MS and you will be a rich man.
Jerk.
My post was factual (MS gives discounts to non-profits and Bill Gates will give away more money than anyone in the history of mankind). This makes me a 'jerk' only to people too emotionally vested in some mental tech dogma they have chosen.
Your post is very possibly an attempt at subterfuge, and thereby trolling. POsting the prices of MS Office for non profits is rather silly when most people work for profit.
When the vast majority of posts are basically just calling MS evil it is *not* silly nor trolling to show they have a good side. That's all I was trying to do. In my opinion, it is much more silly to offhandedly just call a company 'evil' (which you did not do, but is the general tone of many posts).
It has paid off and I'm not complaining, but I could have used that money on better things. I think ODF and Open Office is a step in the right direction.
This is the only reasonable response I've gotten to my post and would agree with these sentiments 100%.
Windows now installs, maintains, integrates, and trains itself?Windows now installs, maintains, integrates, and trains itself?
I did not say this. I clearly stated the obvious, that software installs have costs beyond the cost of 'free' which seemed to be your original bottom line.
Now, if you can show corporate America how it can save money going to your 'free' stacks you will be a rich man.
If a mugger gave away some of what he'd purse-snatched from a little old lady would that make him morally superior to a Slashdot poster? Would a judge think so?
Oh brother
Yeah, Bill Gates (and Warren Buffett since he's given Gates a ton of his billions) is really just a mugger stealing from little old ladies.
The prices I mentioned, when you take into consideration the real costs of software (installation, maintenance, integration, training, productivity, etc), is 'free'. But clearly you wouldn't understand that since you think Windows is best for gaming.
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I thought I was pretty clear; MS and Bill Gates give generously to non-profits.
Clear enough yet?
You can do more for free with OO products.
That's fine. Like I told an earlier poster, go out and *prove* this to the many billion dollar companies running MS and you will be a rich man.
Jerk.
My post was factual (MS gives discounts to non-profits and Bill Gates will give away more money than anyone in the history of mankind). This makes me a 'jerk' only to people too emotionally vested in some mental tech dogma they have chosen.
When the vast majority of posts are basically just calling MS evil it is *not* silly nor trolling to show they have a good side. That's all I was trying to do. In my opinion, it is much more silly to offhandedly just call a company 'evil' (which you did not do, but is the general tone of many posts).
It has paid off and I'm not complaining, but I could have used that money on better things. I think ODF and Open Office is a step in the right direction.
This is the only reasonable response I've gotten to my post and would agree with these sentiments 100%.
I did not say this. I clearly stated the obvious, that software installs have costs beyond the cost of 'free' which seemed to be your original bottom line.
Now, if you can show corporate America how it can save money going to your 'free' stacks you will be a rich man.
Otherwise, I've wasted enough time with you.
If a mugger gave away some of what he'd purse-snatched from a little old lady would that make him morally superior to a Slashdot poster? Would a judge think so?
Oh brother
Yeah, Bill Gates (and Warren Buffett since he's given Gates a ton of his billions) is really just a mugger stealing from little old ladies.
Sheesh
The prices I mentioned, when you take into consideration the real costs of software (installation, maintenance, integration, training, productivity, etc), is 'free'. But clearly you wouldn't understand that since you think Windows is best for gaming.
So, as someone who runs an IT shop for a non-profit, I thought I'd mention MS's pricing for non-profits:
Office Professional = $20
SQL Server 2005 = $240
Small Business Server 2003 = $68
All of their products are available to non-profits at similar discounts at TechSoup.
http://www.techsoup.org/stock/Category.asp?catalog_name=TechSoupMain&category_name=Microsoft&Page=1
And of course Bill Gates will give more money to non-profits then everyone who has ever posted on Slashdot x100.
I'm not saying competition isn't bad, I'm just saying...
The 'Facebook' generation is calling the 'Boomer' generation self-absorbed? Honestly, is there anything more self-centered than MySpace and Facebook?