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Re: [LUG] Mandriva not going to pay M$ tax...

 

On Friday 22 June 2007 12:43, Ben Goodger wrote:
> On 6/22/07, Tom Potts <tompotts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > The support required in reality wouldn't have been much compared with the
> > windows support - you can normally fix a linux machine in the time it
> > gets through to dell support!
>
> The support for Windows is usually a phone walkthrough of the required GUI
> instructions to fix the problem.
> Linux, of course, breaks much more infrequently, because it's difficult to
> bugger up. Unfortunately, this usually means it's difficult to un-bugger,
> and this is time-consuming.
> So if you're competent, it's cheaper - if you're the Linux equivalent of an
> MSCE, you're just concentrating the time...
What is the linux equivalent of MCSE  - someone who knows how to type man?
Tom te tom te tom


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