Thanks to Low Kuan Loong
for this link.
“At the recent LinuxWorld Expo you couldn’t help noticing that
every television and radio business show trotted out an expert or
two to try to explain just what this Linux thing is. The experts
weren’t exactly clear.”
“That secret: Linux is just software. Not a revolutionary
paradigm shift. Not the end of the software industry or even
Microsoft. Not a religion, at least not for corporate IT people.
Just another piece of software. Is it the product of radical
free-software fanatics? Maybe. Who cares? The politics of Linux’s
programmers matters not at all to a computer. Either it works or it
doesn’t. It runs or it crashes.”
“Linux isn’t even free – not for corporate IT shops, anyhow. Add
up the costs of installation, testing, support, training and the
political infighting that comes with any new technology in an IT
shop, and your total cost of running Linux is about the same as NT,
Unix or anything else. The “free” sticker price is a tiny fraction
of that cost.”