On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, Josh Welch wrote: > By the way, there's nothing wrong necessarily with expensive proprietary > computers, there is some very cool stuff in that realm [snip] The thing you have to avoid is vendor lock-in. If you enjoy your expensive proprietary equipment, but if its price doesn't come down (or increases) while the competitors' prices drop, will you be able to easily move away from the expensive machin to the inexpensive machine? Or will you be stuck for years with the high prices? Mike _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list