[clug] Your Best arguments please

John Griffiths johnboy at the-riotact.com
Fri Aug 8 14:44:33 EST 2003


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>
> Anecdotally, many organizations in Canberra have suffered hours or
days of
> downtime this year through Microsoft vulnerabilities...
>

Generally I find that Free Software solutions take me twice as long to
set up as an equivalent closed source product. But at a tiny fraction of
the cost and with almost no ongoing maintenance.

there is some productivity drag with free software, and its all loaded
on the front end.

Thats why there's a barrier to entry, but once you've entered you never,
ever, want to go back.
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