[Gllug] EU patents

[Christopher Hunter]

On Tuesday 01 Jul 2003 8:02 am, Chris Bell wrote:
> On Tue 01 Jul, Christopher Hunter wrote:
> > "Will I be able to use my "Sage" accounts package on this Linux?  Why
> > not?  I spent a huge amount on that programme.  No - I'll stay with
> > Windoze.  Yes - I know that it's not reliable, especially as we lost four
> > days of work last week after a crash, and all my e-mail address book
> > entries were mailed a virus from here, but we'll stay with it."
>
>    There is at least one version of Sage for Linux that has been available
> for some time.

It was an example (however bad) for the purposes of illustration.  

I have just had to deal with a customer who has decided to "upgrade" to Win 
XP.  They have now discovered that much of their legacy software and hardware 
won't work properly with this "operating system".  This foul-up has cost them 
several tens of thousands of pounds, but they insist that they "must run 
Windows XP", even if it means that they have to replace much of their 
hardware and re-buy all their software.....

They also received some particularly nasty Word macro virus (which their 
"virus scanner" software failed to recognise).  This corrupted huge 
quantities of their current data and backups, because they didn't realise 
what had happened for several days......

The stupidity of PC World customers never fails to astonish me!

Chris

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