Two are more expensive more than one?

"Marcus Rejås (FSFE)" rejas at fsfeurope.org
Thu Aug 20 12:51:20 UTC 2015


On 2015-08-20 07:56, Matthias Kirschner wrote:
> You probably saw this article already
> http://www.zdnet.com/article/huge-savings-prompt-italian-city-to-dump-openoffice-for-microsoft-after-four-years/?tag=nl.e552&s_cid=e552&ttag=e552&ftag=TRE3e6936e
> 
> First of all I think it makes no sense to talk about ownership when you
> talk about services. You can say total cost of operations. But that is
> different than when you own something.
> 

To summarize it: The extra costs is mostly due to vendor lock in. So how
does Microsoft propose to fix it? Yes, more vendor lock in! It amazing
what they can get away with ....

  /Marcus





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