alt Hacker NewsMost of the cost (to the government) for Windows is "support" (in a very general sense) and that cost isn't disappearing with Linux.
Especially since it is easier to find badly underpaid (and not particularly competent) Windows sysadmins than it is to find badly underpaid Linux admins.
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fao_ • today at 1:01 PM
Ok but the license fees are, what, 50 quid? times say, 3k or 30k people? A 150k or 1.5m injection into the linux ecosystem to develop those would pay for a _lot_ of developers and a _lot_ of developer time.
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dbolgheroni • today at 2:02 PM
I don't think that cost is what is mostly driving the move from Windows nowadays.
Are you implying that need for support would go away?
If anything the demand would be artificially high at the start of a mass migration, and then presumably level out to something similar to what we see today with Windows.
This is basically RHEL's entire business model.