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Thread ID: 63211	2005-11-02 03:34:00	Will you help the poor get a fair law to buy software and fight moral injustice?	CreightonBrown (5692)	PC World Chat

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401240	2005-11-02 19:46:00	OK. so the dudes at the "campiegn for legal rights for undiscovered microbes" have a computer for thier charitable trust. They wish to send and receive email, do spreadsheets for accounting purposes, be able to read and create PDFs, .docs etc. In short they want it for the office, but M$ products are outside of the budget. Well bad news is that its perfectly possible to do all of that with a simple install of Mepis, or just about any other *nix distro. I'm yet to see a modern *nix distro without an office suite. I say this is bad news because it means that the "campiegn for legal rights for undiscovered microbes" can no longer stand up and be counted as hard done by victims, being discriminated against by.............. If i sound a little cruel in my assesment of "charitable trusts" I've worked for one. I'm yet to meet anyone capable who has managed to get a good or productive experience out of giving thier time to poor hard done by charitable trusts. "Never again" is the phrase i hear over and over again, with the exception of those poor hard done by bastards that fleece trusts for everything they can. If you cant afford to run windows at the office/trust, then don't. Simple as that. Theres absolutely no need to. I know that there is no way i could justify that sort of cost to my business either. I'd rather tidy up the toys that ARE my business than spend money on an OS i don't need for anything i do here. When i get into a computer controlled system that demands an expensive OS, that is when i will get one, and not before.	personthingy (1670)
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