Re: FN-FORUM: help - OT

date posted 5th February 2008 23:09

On Wednesday 06 February 2008 00:41:11 Ben Johnson F wrote:

> Rant over - I just spilt tea on a laptop and trashed the LCD, so am grumpy!

Ouch. I normally fritz the keyboard...

On the subject of licensing and the cost of software: the important figure is
the TCO [1] . One of the hidden costs of commercially-licensed software is
the cost of dealing with the licensing. Like being "invited" to run Windows
Genuine Annoyance before you can install a "freebie".

[1] Total cost of ownership.