Re: [tlug] Total operational cost... hard stats anywhere?

[Dave M G <dave@example.com>]

Stephen,

Thank you for responding.
>  > Either way, they don't really have much substance to back up what
>  > they say.
>  > Would you say that's a fair assessment?
> No, because you don't really know, either.
But I'm not claiming to. Isn't the burden of proof on the positive?

I'm not claiming that TOC is high, low, in the middle, or anything else. 
I'm only saying that no one has shown any kind of proof that can extend 
beyond specific and highly contextual circumstances.

Actually, no one has shown me even that much either. I'm just trusting 
you that such studies maybe exist out there somewhere, and going on your 
description.

If someone says "Linux took me too long to learn, so I abandoned it", 
that's one thing (although as a data set goes, it's limited, and is hard 
to distinguish from PEBKAC). But saying "Linux takes too long to learn, 
so people don't adopt it" requires proof. And I haven't seen any.

In any case, don't worry that I'm going to wade into those murky waters 
too deep. I just wanted to know how far I can go in saying that truly 
conclusive and objective proof doesn't exist. So far, what you're 
telling me gives me confidence that existing data only supports a big 
fat gray area. Grey enough for me to stand on my claim that piracy 
completely obstructs any claims extracted from that greyness.

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Dave M G
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