basic - continued

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On 02/05/2010 11:31 AM, J wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 12:50, xinchen <xinchen97 at sina.com> wrote:
>>> 4) Windows XP costs approx $100 and MS Office Pro costs approx. $400.
>>> This means that one would have to spend at least US$500 just to start
>>> using a PC, whilst UBUNTU + Open office costs nothing except perhaps
>>> the
>>> charges incurred for the internet access for downloads;
> 
>> 4. yes. but you can get technical support  directly from Microsoft
>> support center but if you use linux ,you can only get help from
>> mail-list or network.
> 
> Not necessarily.  You can get Linux technical support directly from
> Canonical, Red Hat and Novell, and just as with direct support from
> Microsoft, you're going to pay for it.  OR, you can get free support
> from forums, mailing lists, LUGs, LoCos etc for both Linux AND
> Windows.
> 
> The difference mainly, is that as far as support goes, in Linux,
> you're pretty much only going to get paid phone support from the big
> names, you aren't going to get it for IHeartLinuxMegaDistro, or any of
> the other nearly 1000 offshoots, variants, etc.

http://xkcd.com/278/
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