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Can you explain
the $ sign you are placing in the word Linux? I mean come on! Total cost to an end user at home is either $0.00 (burn your own no support) or $80.00 (with 90 days support) compared to Microsofts prices for retail software. How can you honestly sit there and type the sign of high cost let alone associate it with Linux?

The only high cost Linux will ever incur is in initial migration and application porting, after that the cost is pretty much $0.00 for updates, patches and operations for any length of time on any number of systems.

So repeat after those in the know:

Initial costs are high but long term gains and profits can and will offset the initial investment!

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Posted by: MkIIISupra   Posted on: 04/06/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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Standards in Linux  Enterprise Analyst | 04/06/04
The only thing they copied is maybe some of the look and feel.  DonnieBoy | 04/06/04
I thought they were trying to make it look like Mac OSX  el1jones | 04/06/04
Look and feel of Linux  FirstNLastN | 04/06/04
Whose mantra - yours?  IT_User | 04/06/04
taking the bait...  ryusen | 04/06/04
Yeah, right...  ZDBear | 04/06/04
umm... do you actually understand ANYTHING...  escoles@... | 04/07/04
The most significant line  Chad_z | 04/06/04
The most significant line  seosamh_z | 04/06/04
The turtle won the race not the rabbit  Enterprise Analyst | 04/06/04
But that is EXACTLY the point, they did not have to start from scratch.  DonnieBoy | 04/06/04
NO point, it is not taking over the world  Enterprise Analyst | 04/06/04
It doesn't HAVE to take over the world  Michael Kelly | 04/06/04
You're right about one thing  Michael Kelly | 04/06/04
good point...  ryusen | 04/06/04
but... that depends,  ryusen | 04/06/04
Return Of The Mythical Man-Mo[n]th  escoles@... | 04/07/04
The most significant line  Enterprise Analyst | 04/06/04
guess what??  Ployd_Farker | 04/06/04
Cheap technology and access to information will liberate them in the end..  DonnieBoy | 04/06/04
China is not changing  Enterprise Analyst | 04/06/04
What is your point?  IT_User | 04/06/04
It is breaking down  voska | 04/06/04
"Communism is failing the dictatorship isn't ..."  escoles@... | 04/07/04
Maybe...one can hope...  escoles@... | 04/07/04
Wages aren't that low in China  voska | 04/06/04
Average wages in China  Enterprise Analyst | 04/06/04
IT_Christian, Southern Pride and whatever else you call  MkIIISupra | 04/06/04
Wages aren't that low in China  seosamh_z | 04/06/04
I can answer that  voska | 04/06/04
I can answer that  seosamh_z | 04/07/04
i'm not sure...  ryusen | 04/06/04
Wal Mart Knoiw That  RobertoSalazar | 04/06/04
New M$ Study will be released  carbon-12 | 04/06/04
Already released happy  Solid Water | 04/06/04
Asian Linux project takes shape  Loverock Davidson | 04/06/04
Why would you care  voska | 04/06/04
re: Vaporware  ryusen | 04/06/04
VAPORWARE  zd-spam | 04/06/04
New L$ study will be release also  Enterprise Analyst | 04/06/04
Can you explain  MkIIISupra | 04/06/04
Can you explain  seosamh_z | 04/06/04
Well good for them  FilledOut | 04/06/04
What Can SCO and McBride Do About This?  RobertoSalazar | 04/06/04
The unbeatable combination...  Knorthern Knight | 04/06/04
Why foreign countries *FEAR* Windows  Knorthern Knight | 04/06/04
Oh, stop being rational! [nt]  escoles@... | 04/07/04
As long as US fights Linux, the US job drain will continue.  Plain Logic | 04/06/04
It's easy, everybody can distribute his own Linux  pa2004 | 04/06/04
Yahoo!  ZDBear | 04/06/04
Moving swiftly  jellyclock | 04/07/04
If you say so  FilledOut | 04/07/04

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