Promoting Open Source in Schools

[Marc Lijour]

On Saturday 17 December 2005 09:38, Peter wrote:
> 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.

No job killer at all. Boards seems to be missing personal!
This could be a salvation rather than a doom ;-)
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