Re: someone at The Daily Mississippian gets it right about Linux

On 10/29/2004 9:51 AM, Stanley Long wrote:

> ... for nearly every software package that Microsoft makes, there’s a
> cheap or free alternative, which is generally just as good as
> Microsoft’s version.

I would have liked to have seen: "For nearly every basic software package
commercially available for Windows, there's a free alternative." Every
time I go to Best Buy and see all of the CD-burning, firewall, anti-spam,
etc. software for $40, I wince. While some of these packages are nicer
than the open-source alternatives, most people buying them -- and, I
would argue, most people targeted by marketers of these packages --
don't need the extra bells and whistles.

-royce

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