OT: Illinois Officials choose MS over Linux

[Boaz Bezborodko]

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> Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2007 13:15:43 -0400
> From: Fairlight <fairlite at fairlite.com>
> Subject: Re: OT:  Illinois Officials choose MS over Linux
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> Confusious (Bill Campbell) say:
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>> > You have to remember that the primary objective of government
>> > officials is to increase the size of government and their job
>> > security.  Efficiency isn't a consideration as that might result
>> > in fewer jobs and less payoffs to their supporters.
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> One has to wonder, though...
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> If a company or individual hired someone to do a job, and they milked it at
> great expense, the employer would have a fit and fire them.
>
> Elected officials are basically employed by the people (in theory).  Why
> should it be any different there?
>
> mark->
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Too many layers in between the guys making this decision and the 
voters.  And not enough people who bother to care what it is they run on 
their machines, why, or how much it costs.

I tell people I can put a decent computer together for about $325 and 
that it will use better components than what they'd get from a Dell or 
HP.  Then I tell them that it will cost about $100 for Windows and that 
this and the fact that Dell and HP still have to make a profit is where 
much of the difference is. 

They have no clue about stability issues especially when it comes to 
Linux.  It just doesn't register so they have no basis on which to 
measure whether some anonymous bureaucrat made a hokey decision that 
will cost them millions extra.  And even if they did, they are far more 
concerned over whether they vote Republican or Democrat than they ever 
will over whether Linux or Windows was the better choice for their systems.