[CS-FSLUG] The Moral Foundation of Free Software

[Fred A. Miller]

On Mon January 3 2005 12:47 am, Aaron Patrick Lehmann wrote:

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> What do they gain?  If KDE is equivalent to Windows, but is going to cost
> every user 2 man-weeks of time to get used to, this requires substantial
> benifits to justify.  If they are paid workers, you lose money, if they are
> volunteers, they will (rightly, in my opinion) feel their time is being
> wasted.  The only advantage to FOSS is where it is different from

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'Doesn't wash......period! The down time associated with using MickySoft is 
VERY costly, and is UNavoidable as long as management insists on using it. 
Further, I disagree with the 2 week learning cuve........it's much less.

Fred

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