[plug] Linux-based ISPs and TCO

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Leon Brooks wrote:
> I went through iiNet on their last open day (and have two of their handout
> bottle-openers to prove it if anyone wants one), and saw a lady using PINE
in
> a PuTTY window on her Windows box talking to a Linux server - resisting
> pressure from management and peers to switch to Outlook. I also saw one
> web-developer in an adjoining office, pointedly using a full-screen Linux
> session and screen(1) on the Windows box he was forced by office policy to
> use.

.. and I use cygwin which gives me X and ssh sessions to the development
servers, and elm in an ssh window for internal email, all on an XP box. If I
really wanted to be a rebble, I could use the knoppix CD that I've got here
at home :-)

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