Re: evan leibovitch and the LPI certification tests
On Tue, 18 May 1999, tony mancill wrote:
> sorry feel compelled to dive into the fray, but...
I gotta do it. If anyone's a geek in suit's clothing, I garauntee you it's
me. And I find this funny, in a sick and twisted way.
> <rant>
> On Tue, 18 May 1999, Mark Mealman wrote:
> >
> > Well damn, I work for one of the US's largest insurance brokerage firms
> > and we use Debian.
> >
> > Guess I should run out and pick up Red Hat, before the LPI police come
> > knocking.
>
> I'm guilty too! I guess I should just hand over my production frame-relay
> routers all over the US and in Sweden, Germany, Malaysia, and Brazil too.
> Let me just fill out a purchase order for 40 copies of RH at $50 apiece...
GodDAMN! And I just spent $8,000 on a single machine, running Debian,
that's going to be handling all our mail, dns, website, NIS, SMB, and
more! And my workstation! And the 20 TFTP servers! And the 45 rackmount
hardware monitoring machines! Better start getting PO's for RedCrap at $80
apiece. (Not $50. $80 now.)
> > Sure would hate to give up Debian's top-notch security, stability, and
> > ease of maintenance though. Then again, we're commercial and not
> > educational so we really don't need those qualities in a Linux
> > distribution.
>
> Commercial people never need to worry about things like true "hassle-free"
> licensing, or being able to build a custom sendmail package in 10 minutes
> by grabbing the source package and adding their own configuration files
> (btw, thanks to Richard Nelson for a rock-stable package). And who wants
> to be able to upgrade with a single command line or without reboots?
Oh, yeah. I just love it. I want to run all our unix machines (some 75
currently, and we're not even started) like we do the necessary NT
machines. Move the mouse, reboot. Upgrade some dinky thing, reboot.
Reinstall mouse drivers, reboot. Write to disk, reboot, and restore from
backups. Yep. I LOVE that.
> Oh yea, and who wants to use free software when you follow a single vendor
> down the yellow brick road until they have you right where they want
> you?!?
> </rant>
</rant>
RedCrap already has everyone where they want them; in their back pocket,
filling their wallet more and more everyday. Alongside VA Research.
-prj
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