BSA - converting M$ users to Linux

[crouse]

Yeah, everyone knows I'm pro Linux ...... but I don't HATE other OS's ...... I do however hate the way some of them do business. Think I'm kidding ? The BSA hammered this guy....... and he went from LOVING M$ to HATING them in about 1 day......... read it ....... it's just one more reason I prefer to use Linux.

http://news.com.com/2008-1082_3-5065859.html?tag=lh

[Droppyale]

well good for him

[nukes]

Cool. This happens quite often, but lots of companies screw up somewhere, and end up keeping MS on desktops and stuff through not thinking it through. Good for him

[JohnE.]

Very refreshing story, I read the whole thing

[Droppyale]

I read the whole thing

you make that sound like an acomplishment....

[willy_ph]

It's good to hear that corporations are beginning to see the merits in a completely open source environment. It's funny how one little event can produce such a drastic change in policy.

Hopefully the more linux is adopted by the corporate market, the less companies will have to worry about a lack of software. If there is one thing plaguing the open source community, it's the lack of business software. Maybe the software developers in the open source community will soon prop up and pay attention.

[Ruler2112]

I'm the head of IT for two different stores of the same company. If it weren't for the proprietary programs running only on windoze, I think I'd suggest moving to a linux distro for the desktops. Hard to do when there are 2 programs that we *need* to use, they're only available for windoze, not open source, the vendor isn't interested in producing a linux version, and won't give me any specs on how the app works so I can write a linux version.

One of the vendors are the same people who redesigned their web site recently so that it only works in IE. Use any other browser under windoze or on my linux box and nothing works. They're not interested in fixing it and have already destroyed the old site. Ah well- just call them and have them type in information instead of simply going online and doing it myself in 1/8 the time.

[SeanC]

Great news. It proves to other businesses that they don't need Microsoft software to run.

Sean

[CMonster]

what a great interview!