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Originally Posted by jggimi View Post
It is free, and many commercial operations find themselves unable to use free software without managing support risks themselves.
This is a particularly painful point for me. I'm the Unix guru where I work. I'm surrounded by developers and IT staff who know Linux well, and we can't switch to BSD for anything because "If you get hit by a bus, Jonathon, who's going to manage these systems?" (Note: the company where I work is a Linux shop...so free software isn't the issue).

Our NetAdmin is a Cisco guy who's been replacing our ancient network infrastructure with Cisco gear left and right. He criticizes our main firewalls (Linux machines) almost daily (with reason)...and I can't help but find irony in the fact that we're blowing hundreds of thousands of dollars per year because our NetAdmin can be replaced and (by company admission) I cannot.

It's stupid, but that's life in the corporate world.
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