From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Apr 2 17:28:33 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B8B637B41C for ; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 17:28:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-a220.otenet.gr [212.205.215.220]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g331SDQA009283; Wed, 3 Apr 2002 04:28:14 +0300 (EEST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (hades [127.0.0.1]) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g331SCKG034004; Wed, 3 Apr 2002 04:28:12 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) id g331SB9s034003; Wed, 3 Apr 2002 04:28:11 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 04:28:11 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Anthony Atkielski Cc: Terry Lambert , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Anti-Unix Site Runs Unix Message-ID: <20020403012810.GA33624@hades.hell.gr> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20020401153352.02b99760@nospam.lariat.org> <3CA8EB5F.2E91B408@mindspring.com> <1017709221.71119.5.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> <3CA91382.4E4E2B@mindspring.com> <1017714456.71119.20.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> <3CA93944.D72D6AB7@mindspring.com> <004501c1da0f$7cd67a80$0a00000a@atkielski.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <004501c1da0f$7cd67a80$0a00000a@atkielski.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 2002-04-02 08:27, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > > And that's why so many shops just adopt Windows for everything, since they > need it on the desktops already. Because that all they: a) know. For some definition of "know". See below. b) afford. They don't have money to buy one of the commercial UNIX solutions. They don't know anyone that can do their work on a free UNIX clone. They also know this "guy next door" that does "programming" and can present a small "server" written in VB (they don't know what the hell this VB thing is, but it sure sounds cool), in less than a few weeks. It doesn't always work, and it causes major headaches when the timezone shifts from EET to EEST, possibly crashing a few times a day too. But hey... it works "most of the time" doesn't it? Can you spell "compromise" ? - Giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message