Subj : Re: MS-DOS and Win 3.11 Admin
To   : Ogg
From : fusion
Date : Wed Jan 31 2024 18:53:35

On 31 Jan 2024, Ogg said the following...
 
 Og> Perhaps the system could be better served with a linux port- 
 Og> over.

lmao this is an awful idea. linux doesn't need to be on everything.

and likely the outcome would be a system that doesn't work as well, costs a significant amount more to maintain, etc. vs one that has had all it's bugs ironed out over 30 years.

i was helping a restaurant keep an older dos point of sale software going.. every few years i'd replace some computer, tweak the hardware a bit, etc.. they didn't want to pay that anymore. they wanted to be fancy.

now instead of maybe $500 every few years they rent a modern one for something like $500 a month or more (price usually per register, support, etc)

so what.. $6k+ a year? lol. that shit adds up.. more than 60k since they switched. and that's some small-scale not-your-tax-money stuff.

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