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Overall, I'm eager for the time when a major US municipality switches over to Linux desktops. It just makes sense. The problem is, it's been making sense for a
by auctiontheory 13y ago
Overall, I'm eager for the time when a major US municipality switches over to Linux desktops. It just makes sense.
The problem is, it's been making sense for a decade now, at least for the office suite. But these wins against Microsoft remain one offs.
There are many reasons for this, but IT professionals are part of the "problem." Someone with a lifetime of MSFT certifications and training can come up with a dozen reasons why open source is bad. He needs to save his livelihood.
- teddyh 13y ago“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!” — Upton Sinclair
- singold 13y agoThis made me remember the other day in my job (I'm the webmaster) when I asked the IT dept. to install Firefox or Chrome (at least) on my machine (I was developing the main site on winXP + IE8). They told me that they couldn't because of 'security concerns'