cold water on linux

[Alma J Wetzker]

Joel Hammer wrote:
[snip]
> On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 09:11:54AM -0400, Net Llama! wrote:
> The odd thing is that I know that most desktops in my
> corporation, and there are a lot of them, don't need
> windows. Now, if linux were cheaper, there would be
> considerable savings for the corporation. I just don't know
> what kind of deal MS offers large corporations. What I do
> know is that typing with vim is much faster than typing
> with any other wordprocessor. Why use MS word for average
> typing tasks?  Just boggles the mind.
[snip]

Working for a big distributor of PC hardware and software, I know what we paid 
for M$ products and top level tech support: $0.00 USD.  As a student at a 
large state college I know what all M$ OS's cost me: $0.00 USD.  I have free 
copies of WinXP Pro, Win2003, .NET application development stuff, Project and 
a few others.  I can't get Office from the same source but I can get a student 
version from MicroCenter for a song (with rebates and stuff).  In short, 
Windows now has the same price as linux.  I will leave the calculation of cost 
as an exercise for the student.

     -- Alma