From the presentation of Jon Maddog Hall
1. Large firms offer me security
2. LINUX is hard to install
3. LINUX is hard to use
4. There are no application
5. There are so many different distributions
6. There is no support for LINUX
7. Microsoft is the standard
8. Software patents is good
9. You can't make money with free software
10. GPL is a virus
11. The software are no good, that's why they give it free
12. Free OSS are written by a bunch of ...
I don't know why do some Enterprises still think that it should always be Microsoft.
I am not against Microsoft.I use their products too.There are times when they need
decide which tools are best for a certain environment.
IMHO the Enterprises tend to think that when they fork out a large sum of money then
the product must be really good,it's an assurance for them that guarantee the
reliability of the product.That also bring us to reason #11.
I notice that Microsoft is pretty good at user experience design.Perhaps this is
where Open Source could tackle..and if only computer games like Quake could be played
on a LINUX machine..hmm that would be awesome.
-geek by nature,PHP by choice-
Posted by: aizul | Thursday, August 28, 2003 at 08:38 AM