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

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

Dave M G writes:

 > But I'm not claiming to. Isn't the burden of proof on the positive?

Not on Slashdot.  The burden of proof is on anybody but you, for any
convenient value of "you.

 > But saying "Linux takes too long to learn, so people don't adopt
 > it" requires proof. And I haven't seen any.

Well, you have to be sure that the claim is *Linux* takes too long to
learn.  The more reasonable claim is that *any* computer system takes
too long to learn, so people would rather fight than switch.

I think you'll have very little trouble amassing data to the effect
that any switch is very costly.  It would cost me a huge amount of
effort to switch to Windows, you know.

Add to that the effects of classes of software that are effectively
non-existent on Linux and prima donna salesman.
h