The smell of newly purchased stuff... So, there I was, Hauppauge WinTV board in hand, Mandrake 10 installed and ready to rock! Little did I expect that it would come to this. But first things first.
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>Sure, initially there will be costs for education, time spent >on installing, upgrading and maintaining a new system, but in >the end there will be a positive economical effect. Why? >Because logically, nothing can be cheaper than what's free, >right?
This statement is quite naive, the cost of the OS is insignificant compared to the cost of development, we can burn a couple of 1000 dollars in a week on linux without much to see for it. It is labour which costs, software is cheap.
>Sure, initially there will be costs for education, time spent >on installing, upgrading and maintaining a new system, but in >the end there will be a positive economical effect. Why? >Because logically, nothing can be cheaper than what's free, >right?
This statement is quite naive, the cost of the OS is insignificant compared to the cost of development, we can burn a couple of 1000 dollars in a week on linux without much to see for it. It is labour which costs, software is cheap.