[Asterisk-Users] Need HELP to put * in use for good cause

[james]

Now there's the best argument I've heard for Linux-on-Desktop yet. I
wish the competing "My TCO beats your TCO" studies would consider all
these factors.

So, in the end, even when M$ is free, it's still to expensive!

On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 15:16, Achilleus Papadopoulos wrote:
> When I wrote my first post I meant MS pricing, to be
> honest ;-)
> You are right, I didn't know about MS special pricing
> for NPOs. 
> Nevertheless, the persistent problem with MS is that
> we are running 3-4 different versions of Windows (98SE
> trough XP) and 3 different versions of Outlook. Also,
> on the hardware side, we have PCs at 500MHz w/ 128MB
> RAM up to 1.7GHz w/ 512MB RAM. This HW-SW diversity is
> a huge pain in the arse to handle, especially if your
> duties are to do network admin, email admin, helpdesk,
> and trainer all at once! Hey guys, I am not an
> octopus, and I’m F!@#$G tired of running after Windoze
> crashes, viruses, users toying with Control Panel
> settings and messing up, and other $h!t like that! I
> think that migrating our operating environment to
> Linux could streamline and leverage our HW/SW
> diversity and compensate for otherwise obsolete HW if
> we were going to streamline a Windows environment for
> all users. This amounts to that when people donate a
> newer PC we wouldn’t trash an older WIN98 box as to
> have more, let’s say, WIN2K boxes so we can streamline
> our operating environment. We would rather derive a
> least common denominator of Linux for all PCs and thus
> instead of retiring systems we would be adding more
> PCs = more users. Moreover, being the fascist bastard
> that I am (oh yes, the Stallmanesque way), I have
> decided that we are going to support OSS trough its
> use because it is just as good a cause as helping
> troubled youth find their way to a better life
 Thanks
> to everyone that has posted so far I will greatly
> appreciate your further input.   
> 
> 
> 
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