On Thu, 2004-12-23 at 12:52, steve wrote:
Microsoft Publisher is free. Linux isn't.
Anymore......
What do you mean?
You get Microsoft Publisher free when you buy a computer. And it runs on a Pentium with 16 Mb of memory. You have to pay extra to get Linux.
Actually that's not really true, Publisher comes with costs, buried costs, like the OS, and future upgrade fees. You can of course toss away your SuSE and go Debian and be completely free as in your only costs would be those of acquiring the media to install, about $1.00 a disk, and do continuous free upgrades and updates until the Debian Project shuts down. You ought to be able to do that with Fedora, Gentoo, and Knoppix as well, so Linux is in essense free with it's costs limited to acquired install media costs. Also with Linux, as you are talking the actual OS and not just a program, you never need pay the MS security tax, AKA Virus protection, unless of course you want to use your system as a file server on a MicroSoft network, and then you will want to scan all MS based files so they don't infect other MS based systems. Just my $0.017 worth (That's 2 cents less GST). Mike