A useful observation and one that highlights a powerful constituency, corporate IT, that would suffer if they had to convert away from Linux.
With constant pressure on IT departments to reduce costs the built-in advantage of an operating system that doesn't have a price tag attached is inherently tough to resist. Oh sure, there's life-cycle costs to consider but hard experience in that area will win out over Microsoft-inspired "studies".
Besides, as someone else pointed out, if Linux becomes illegal it'll only be illegal in the U.S. China, India and a slew of other countries have embraced Linux not because of the price tag but because having access to the source code is a good way to make sure the NSA or CIA (or the AFL or CIO) hasn't put in a back door.
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A useful observation and one that highlights a powerful constituency, corporate IT, that would suffer if they had to convert away from Linux.
With constant pressure on IT departments to reduce costs the built-in advantage of an operating system that doesn't have a price tag attached is inherently tough to resist. Oh sure, there's life-cycle costs to consider but hard experience in that area will win out over Microsoft-inspired "studies".
Besides, as someone else pointed out, if Linux becomes illegal it'll only be illegal in the U.S. China, India and a slew of other countries have embraced Linux not because of the price tag but because having access to the source code is a good way to make sure the NSA or CIA (or the AFL or CIO) hasn't put in a back door.