On Saturday 04 January 2003 20:41, Nikhil Joshi wrote:

****************************************  * LUG meet on 12 Jan. 2003 @ VJTI  ****************************************

How did u conclude that i assumed the worms and crashes are imposible.

They indeed happen, but are extremely rare in a well configured system. Hence the maintainence costs are very low.

On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, jtdsouza@softhome.net wrote:

I guess you are assuming 3 things:

1. Worms/viruses are impossible under Linux

2. There are no free (beer) tools to combat worms/viruses under  Windows

It is not the cost of the tool (capital cost) but the cost of putting these tools to work that is very high (service costs).

3. Random crashes are impossible in Linux

IMHO  *all* these assumptions are misleading and incorrect.

1 and 3 are very rare in GNU/Linux. Morover they require a badly configured system to "infect". If u happen to use Debian u would be quite safe (IMHO).

My point was "conversion" must highlight the maintainence and recurring cost aspect not the capital costs. As for the "piracy n religion" bit call NASSCOM if u wanna stick to the law.

rgds jtdsouza@yahoo.com