[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: Micro$oft is killing small town budgets- no mention of an alternative?

[Pat Blackard]

I sent the city of Stillwater this link:

http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/08/10/1441239&mode=thread

mentioned here last month, in which a somewhat larger city saves big
bucks by using linux instead of MS.

I couldn't find the author of the AP piece on the FOX web site, but I
have had success in the past sending these writers notes about MS
alternatives.

The piece about MS and Software Assurance gets published by the AP, but
Rob Miller's piece on Largo Florida is seen only by readers of an Open
Source web site.  Let's fix that.  

--Pat Blackard

discuss-request at ntlug.org wrote:

> 
> Message: 2
> Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2001 00:43:34 -0500
> From: Kevin Ivey <ik04 at isot.com>
> To: discuss at ntlug.org
> Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] Micro$oft is killing small town budgets- no mention of an alternative?
> Reply-To: discuss at ntlug.org
> 
> In this AP article, the jacked-up license costs are in return for a
> "simpler to understand and administer" forced upgrade plan.
> Don't want or need to upgrade now?  You'll pay much more later.
> Pure fear mongering.
> 
> http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,35928,00.html
> 
> No mention of a free alternative or Linux at all....
> 
> Too bad.
> 
> keVIn