[clue-talk] saving money with Linux

[David L. Willson]

MS Windows $200
MS Office   350
(antivirus)  40

Other applications as appropriate.  Most things are free (as in beer) on Linux and not free on Windows and other proprietary OSs.

Next, Linux is competitive.  Due to the nature and spirit of the GPL and the community, what one Linux vendor has, they all gradually acquire, and in such a way that compatibility is not only possible, but encouraged.  With proprietary software, when a vendor makes something new, or even patents something new without making it, you're stuck with that vendor for that thing, for an extended time, and another company can't make a better, but compatible, one, because of the legal protection for the "intellectual property".  So, in general, Free software is a better value in features than proprietary software, even if the dollar cost is similar.

David L. Willson
Trainer, Engineer, Enthusiast
MCT, MCSE, LPIC-1
tel://720.333.LANS

----- "Louis Miller" <miller106c at comcast.net> wrote:

> Grant,
> 
>        You said in your introduction, in caps that Linux saves you
> time 
> and money, then the next few paragraphs are all about it saving you 
> time. As if everyone knows how Linux saves people money. But, we
> haven't 
> really established how Linux saves the computer user money. How would
> I 
> tell a Windows user, in 500 words or less, how it would save them
> money?
> 
> Louis
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