[Novalug] Linux more expensive
luigi12081@cox.net
luigi12081@cox.net
Thu Mar 15 19:18:08 EDT 2007
---- Russell Evans <russell-evans@qwest.net> wrote:
> That said I have never work on a high risk infrastructure, like the
> military, CIA, ... I hope and assume they have the money and manpower
> to buy the time needed to proactively administrate the infrastructure
> under their control without the worry of cost as they are guarding
> lives, not just random ones and zeros.
OFFTOPIC:
Doesn't mean much if your end-users allow their laptops to be taken in the field and sold in a Kandahar bazaar, as happened in a much-publicized case recently.
Or, indeed, if you were the genius who left a USB drive full of personal database information--names, addresses, telephone numbers, social security numbers (!)--on a metro faregate, as I found one day. I assumed it belonged to the fellow with the stellar resume (security clearance and all) I also found on the USB disk, so I popped it in the mail anonymously.
ONTOPIC:
I wonder what the story might have been if we were discussing startup costs rather than the cost/burden of maintaining somebody else's muddled mix of machines. Seemed to be a bit of a rigged race to me.
-Luigi
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> Thank you
> Russell
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