Date: Wed, 08 Sep 1999 00:40:49 -0400 From: W Gerald Hicks <wghicks@bellsouth.net> To: Roelof Osinga <roelof@nisser.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, wghicks@wghicks.bellsouth.net Subject: Re: (fwd) CNN - Crypto expert: Microsoft products leave door opentoNSA - September 3, 1999 (fwd) Message-ID: <199909080440.AAA00788@bellsouth.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 07 Sep 1999 04:20:49 %2B0200." <37D47681.9F58E0E4@nisser.com>
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> Great for the consultants among us, but bad for marketing. Somehow > I can't see all people caring enough all the time. Call me cynical <g>. Bingo! What is needed is to convince more small business people to consider using a consultant for the occasional updates like the sendmail thing you mention. Instead, most people seem to have been conned into the Microsoft way of continual and expensive software updates while trying to do everything for themselves. Sorry, but more small businesses are strung together with half-assed newbie spreadsheets than not. Which way is really more expensive? Which way keeps money in your community and helps provide local employment? The current situation is a result of very effective marketing and unethical business practices by Microsoft, not any real gains in productivity from using their software. With a small amount of handholding by competent consultants, I'll argue that FreeBSD offers much lower total cost of ownership than a Microsoft-based approach for small and large businesses alike. Microsoft is the Wal-Mart of the software industry. Support your local computer consultants! Cheers, Jerry Hicks wghicks@bellsouth.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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