4 Jan
2003
4 Jan
'03
8:35 p.m.
On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, jtdsouza@softhome.net wrote:
Wrong presumption that initial capital costs is the only cost. As usage increases, the costs for maintainence and security of data exceeds the initial capital cost by orders of magnitude (now u know why M$ is trying to change it's bussiness model). This is true for any user. The hassle of keeping out worms and preventing random crashes is what will turn the shop owner and home user to GNU/Linux.
I guess you are assuming 3 things:
1. Worms/viruses are impossible under Linux
2. There are no free (beer) tools to combat worms/viruses under Windows
3. Random crashes are impossible in Linux
IMHO *all* these assumptions are misleading and incorrect.
Nikhil