How about they start reimbursing me for bandwidth charges and giving me a cut of the profits every time I link to one of their artists from my blog?
I'm helping create buzz and drive potential customers to their clients... Sounds like I could function as a sales 'Broker' and charge them 10% of every sale, no?
I have to agree... Everyone always brings up 'switch to Linux instead!' when you mention Windows security problems. That's great in theory, and I'm sure your network admin might actually do that. Then again, he's probably not the one bringing the virus onto your network in the first place.
The real world situation is that people are idiots. They can't even use the big pretty blue buttons in Windows XP, much less Linux. If they don't know that the big Novell login screen with the buttons saying 'Press Ctrl + Alt + Del to begin.' is telling them they should press those keys to get started, what chance is there they'll know what to do with one of the somewhat useless messages Gnome generates when an application crashes? (And yes, that most certainly was a 100% true story... I shit you not!)
Besides, I know our company builds their applications from scratch. While we are moving more to a web-based application model, we still have 95% of our programs written in Delphi, and even support a legacy DOS-based system. There's no way we'd get all that ported to Linux any time in the next 2 years, even if we dropped everything until it was done.
The point is, stop suggesting the supposedly "ideal" scenario that no one will ever be able to obtain. We're stuck with Windows (at least for the time being anyway), so we may as well focus on THAT problem and try to do the best we can with the tools we have. Let's worry about keeping Billy the marketing Intern from bringing Klez onto our network first, and THEN worry about changing the world later...
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How about they start reimbursing me for bandwidth charges and giving me a cut of the profits every time I link to one of their artists from my blog?
I'm helping create buzz and drive potential customers to their clients... Sounds like I could function as a sales 'Broker' and charge them 10% of every sale, no?
I have to agree... Everyone always brings up 'switch to Linux instead!' when you mention Windows security problems. That's great in theory, and I'm sure your network admin might actually do that. Then again, he's probably not the one bringing the virus onto your network in the first place.
The real world situation is that people are idiots. They can't even use the big pretty blue buttons in Windows XP, much less Linux. If they don't know that the big Novell login screen with the buttons saying 'Press Ctrl + Alt + Del to begin.' is telling them they should press those keys to get started, what chance is there they'll know what to do with one of the somewhat useless messages Gnome generates when an application crashes? (And yes, that most certainly was a 100% true story... I shit you not!)
Besides, I know our company builds their applications from scratch. While we are moving more to a web-based application model, we still have 95% of our programs written in Delphi, and even support a legacy DOS-based system. There's no way we'd get all that ported to Linux any time in the next 2 years, even if we dropped everything until it was done.
The point is, stop suggesting the supposedly "ideal" scenario that no one will ever be able to obtain. We're stuck with Windows (at least for the time being anyway), so we may as well focus on THAT problem and try to do the best we can with the tools we have. Let's worry about keeping Billy the marketing Intern from bringing Klez onto our network first, and THEN worry about changing the world later...