Re: [LUG] Licences preventing the user from using other OSes?

["Mark Evans" <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Adrian Midgley wrote:
>
> > Ned Ludd and his followers resisted the loss of their jobs, one of the viral
> > things about MS is that it creates jobs.  Which offers greater employment for
> > low-grade IT technicians, an operating system and applications where
> > everything is understandable, or one where the the details are hidden and
> > only accessible to the senior members of the Guild; programs that work
> > usually and evolve gradually under pressures from users, or programs that are
> > flaky and driven by marketing hype?
>
> Nah in the old days real computers would have a team of a dozen
> highly paid specialists or so supporting each one. Personal
> computers have about one person to 50 or 60 computers, and
> better organised enterprises claim one person to 200 desktops. I
> suspect the figures include a lot of hidden employee time
> maintaining their own PC's.

Probably a fair part of the cost is generated by these employees
attempting to maintain their own PC's and making a mess of it.
End user administered computers is very much a two edged sword.

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