Promoting Open Source in Schools

[Peter]

On Fri, 16 Dec 2005, William Park wrote:

> But, in all honesty, thin-client alone will eliminate 90% of IT cost,
> because it eliminates desktops altogether and all associated cost like
> payroll of sysadmin, maintenance, upgrade, configuration, etc.  I have
> better chance of making my living as porn stud, than as Linux salesman.
>
> I'm just awed by Microsoft's prowse in all this.  When they say Linux is
> job killer, they are right on.  While we Linux amateurs talk about
> technical merits of Linux, Microsoft talks directly to the decision
> makers and IT staffs.

Why would Linux be a job killer ?! It's a job killer in the sense that, 
if adopted, the IT department will no longer have the grueling 
janitorial job of carting and marshalling megabytes of spam, pron and 
malware to the bit bucket, and they will advance beyond the all-time 
intellectual low point of 'reinstalling' more often than anything else, 
to doing real, useful work, shaping and configuring their systems, and 
seeing them do what they tell them to.

Peter
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