Canadian academia and open source

[James Knott]

ted leslie wrote:
> In a Opensource environment, it is very hard to  grease the
> the buyers. Even if they bought linux and staroffice, of course the margins are not there
> to leave behind a 5K$ portable in the car of the customer after the lunch meeting
> (which of course was a very expensive lunch  and pay for by the supplier :)   )
> Now if the schools bought HW and opensource deployment from a single entity
> then the school board wouldn't have to fear losing their greasing (as much).
> Being a supplier, I have often found that the subtle hints for greasing also
> happen over time, sometime even two years, before you are greasing at the 2-5% level.
> So a change of supplier, then involves some time to establish a re-greasing environment.

That would depend on where you go for lunch.  ;-)
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