Re: [LUG] MS Locks in UK Schools

[Richard Brown <rich@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Aaron

Have been going that way for sometime and he will be installing Linux 
to one of his machines shortly!

Rich

On 12 Mar 2005, at 08:55, Aaron Trevena wrote:

> On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 06:44:38 +0000, Richard Brown <rich@xxxxxxxxxxx> 
> wrote:
> > I have
> > been challenging my local Pastor to move to Linux but the cost is
> > great. He is starting to see the benefit after about 3 years
> > encouragement. But he has 5 computers! The cost to him is not 
> > financial
> > (they run w98), the cost is time and effort. He will have to move data
> > across, relearn a new system and then encourage his children to do the
> > same. MS runs quite well for him, why should he change? Saying
> > something like MS is rubbish and that they are corrupt really won't
> > help!
>
> I would point out that win98 no longer gets any update or support and
> that if anything goes wrong he is stuffed. Local small computer shops
> who usually do support will just suck through their teeth and say
> 'youre gonna have to install XP guvnor, thats 200 quid'.
>
> Also for the same reason any new hardware he buys is even less likely
> to be supported on 98 and Linux and its not like he can run any new
> software on it.
>
> Then there is security - no SP2 or IE7. If he has children he really
> ought to have some kind of firewall and spamassasin, antivirus, etc.
> Or is he going to wait until everybody on his contact list in Outlook
> gets porn spam from him?
>
> cheers,
>
> A.
> A.
>
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