On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 11:19, Gary Nichols wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Craig White wrote:
> > I think I'm fairly consistent about this - I don't bash Microsoft or
> > Apple - and I see very little difference between them except that
> > Microsoft has the market share and Apple doesn't.
> 
> *winces*  Did you just put Apple and MS in the same category?  :-)
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I think that I did - harkening back to a very famous statement by Reggie
Jackson... one's is a liar, the other is a convicted liar...
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> 
> *throws holy water on Crag*  Back demon!  Back!  *laugh*
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I'm obviously heathen
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> 
> > It seems to me that the issue about HIPPA compliance that der Hans is
> > trying to make is moot, merely because of the good citizen moniker that
> > is automatically given to Microsoft. If it were felt that Microsoft's
> > licensing terms were in violation of HIPPA, Microsoft would change those
> > terms and that would be the end of it. The intent of HIPPA wasn't to
> > exclude vendors.
> 
> Agreed.
> > That being said, most businesses are not concerned about the evils of
> > Microsoft and when presented with the FSF/open source choice as a means
> > to escape those evils that they don't see, it rarely resonates. It will
> > resonate when the actually figure out that changing to the FSF/open
> > source systems is a sound business decision. It's slowly getting there.
> 
> I agree with this also.  You have to show return on investment through
> various means: financial, privacy, security, productivity, the list goes
> on...
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this is a banner week for me, getting agreement from various quarters
including Derek and Chris G too.

Must be my meds are kicking in...

;-)

Craig