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[ILUG] Interesting article

[ILUG] Interesting article

Rick Moen rick at linuxmafia.com
Thu Apr 28 17:24:35 IST 2005


Quoting PJ Wall (pj.wall at itcarlow.ie):

> The incentives to go OSS are greatly diminished if a "critical" app is 
> not Windows compatible.

Somehow, it never dawns on people _allegedly_ considering going to open
source or to Linux to just -leave alone- the one or two machines that
need to run Quickbooks or something.  But of course these typically
aren't real studies, but rather excuse-generation exercises.





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