[QUOTE="Mark Trotman"] There /should/ be a govt. initiative to get schools off of m$ (and every other govt. dept. that's using it). I wonder how much per annum this costs the Countries tax payers? Perhaps I can this withhold this portion of my taxes in a similar way to the anti-war campaigners (or was it nuke weapons?) did not so long ago.[/QUOTE] I doubt the education versions of the license cost anywhere near the consumer/business price. I've been around computers for years, well around 24. IME I just can't be arsed with Linux. MS delivers just about all I want and I don't think stability is a problem. Admittedly the virus issue has been a real PITA recently but... if Linux was so dominant I'm sure that this would also get hit (to some extent). I can't support a government campaign to move from MS to Linux; you'll then have a bunch of snotty nosed school kids going into the workplace and wanting to argue about the apps. they're being asked to run " 'cos Linux is much better..." Corporate IT dept.s choose MS products for a reason, they're easier to support than the alternative. Figures I saw recently suggested that (for my employer) supporting a laptop user for 3 years cost about double the initial cost of the hardware supplied. Linux is being used for some servers but will it make it as a viable, commercial desktop alternative to MS? Personally I doubt this, not because it's necessarily inferior in any way but mainly because of the momentum behind MS. But still, wtf do I know it's not my area. [QUOTE] Fairy nuff, but (IMHO) you might change your mind if you had it running for a while.[/QUOTE] I had Suse running for a while about 2 years ago. The problem for me was that there wasn't an application available with the features of microsoft money available. I also wasn't dreadfully impressed with the quality of the applications, I suppose you get what you pay for (or steal).
