Open Source in Tuttle, OK

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A follow-up story:

http://www.tuttletimes.com/siteSearch/apstorysection/local_story_088201244.html

The city manager is quoted thus:

[CentOS is] a free operating system that this guy gives away, which tells you how much time he's got on his hands.

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Except of course the actual price is not free or else everyone would be using it right now. Training, staff hours to do the switch, limitations on other software to use, etc.

MBA-types do indeed have lower-level geeks put stuff together. Proposals. Then they review them. If they associate CentOS with this story in any way, they're going to run screaming.

Thought experiment. Imagine you are not a geek. Imagine that you work with geeks, and manage them. Imagine you read this story, or worse, you read the original email exchange. Who are you going to identify with?

Hint: not Johnny Hughes