Re: [chat] Re: [SLUG] Benefits of source distro (Gentoo) somewhat elusive :-)

[mlh@xxxxxxxxxx]

On Tue, 5 Aug 2003 14:05:49 +1100
scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> I work in the transport industry, most customers want the cheap *Will just 
> do* hardware, which ends up costing them more in labour then it would to 
> buy something decent, but they cannot see that!

This is called a "bike shed discussion" 

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/misc.html#BIKESHED-PAINTING

Everyone knows what a bike shed is so they'll stick their oar in.
Everyone knows what a PC/printer is, so likewise.

If you had to run a big Solaris machine or IBM mainframe, they'd
just assume you know what you're doing and give you less interference.

Matt