Bill G has promised nearly a billion to third world vacinations. Who knows how much globaly has been raised for the tsunami relief effort. Bush has aked for another 80 billion. Tabaco companies globaly will spend over a billion advertising and fighting the law suits those adverts leed to.
Billions are spent evry day/week/month on nasses of stuff that does nothing to further our understanding.
The hubble space telescope has given us such insight that it would paracticaly be crimianly not to fund its repair. What else would the US treasury do with the money? Actually i don't want to know.
Don't make me laugh...please. If i wander down to my local PC world and buy a copy of windows xp how much support do i actualy get? I certainly don't get any more or less thean i do if i download and install any of the major (or most minor) linux distributions. The same is true if i bought MS office and open/star office. And thats just at a persoanl level. I helped start an IT business and four years in I'm in the process of moving from an entirely Microsoft environment to an open source environment. I have paid an awfull lot of money for microsft licensinces over the last four years. The products i have purchased on the whole have been excellant (office, visio, exchange etc) but having sampled open source alternatives i have two major gripes: 1) Cost - everyting is far too expensive (i won't labour as i know you all know this), 2) Support - When i pay 300 quid for office per user i stilldon't get to phone microsoft up when i get a prblem (i know there is a 90 day support period but you knowwhat i mean). So my support path is the web, be it microsoft knowledge base or one of the miriad of geek sites. My point is that unless we pay microsoft for support, none of us get supported really. For Mr McGrath to claim that an apropriae level of support isn't available to Linux users is frankly ridiculous. As a Linux novice i have found more than enough support to get me through any situation. I suspect this is another back-foot defense from a deeply couple worried company.
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Bill G has promised nearly a billion to third world vacinations. Who knows how much globaly has been raised for the tsunami relief effort. Bush has aked for another 80 billion. Tabaco companies globaly will spend over a billion advertising and fighting the law suits those adverts leed to. Billions are spent evry day/week/month on nasses of stuff that does nothing to further our understanding. The hubble space telescope has given us such insight that it would paracticaly be crimianly not to fund its repair. What else would the US treasury do with the money? Actually i don't want to know.
Oh shut up!!!
Don't make me laugh...please. If i wander down to my local PC world and buy a copy of windows xp how much support do i actualy get? I certainly don't get any more or less thean i do if i download and install any of the major (or most minor) linux distributions. The same is true if i bought MS office and open/star office. And thats just at a persoanl level. I helped start an IT business and four years in I'm in the process of moving from an entirely Microsoft environment to an open source environment. I have paid an awfull lot of money for microsft licensinces over the last four years. The products i have purchased on the whole have been excellant (office, visio, exchange etc) but having sampled open source alternatives i have two major gripes: 1) Cost - everyting is far too expensive (i won't labour as i know you all know this), 2) Support - When i pay 300 quid for office per user i stilldon't get to phone microsoft up when i get a prblem (i know there is a 90 day support period but you knowwhat i mean). So my support path is the web, be it microsoft knowledge base or one of the miriad of geek sites. My point is that unless we pay microsoft for support, none of us get supported really. For Mr McGrath to claim that an apropriae level of support isn't available to Linux users is frankly ridiculous. As a Linux novice i have found more than enough support to get me through any situation. I suspect this is another back-foot defense from a deeply couple worried company.