[aklug] Re: Sigh...

Two words: Service contract
Ergo, someone/some vendor to hold accountable when everything comes crashing
down, along with fancy SLAs. While there are certainly some outfits that
will sell you a service contract for open source, they're not nearly as
bountiful as Windows shops.

And I'm writing this on my corporate issued laptop with a "Made for Windows
7" badge that has been downgraded to the corporate-approved Windows 2000
image complete with IE6! Not even allowed to install FF. I wish I was
joking........

Scott
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 15:14, Christopher Howard <
christopher.howard@frigidcode.com> wrote:

> Why is it that big corporations are so stuck on using windows and it's
> crappy software? They pay massive license fees for some cheesy program they
> can't replace, and then force all their employees to use it. Why not invest
> in open source tools that can be built for any platform and modified when
> the needs change? Why do we need licensed, closed source junkware to do
> common stuff like word processing or querying databases? Its so frustrating
> to be an open source guy and stuck in this system. And they keep moving more
> and more of our company apps over to Windows only solutions.
> ARRGGGGG!
>
> /end rant
>
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