http://www.switched.com/2009/07/19/best-of-the-week-alien-abductions-scare-kids-texting-hurts-peo/ Switched Comments for Best of the Week: Alien Abductions Scare Kids, Texting Hurts People http://www.switched.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.switched.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.switched.com/2009/07/19/best-of-the-week-alien-abductions-scare-kids-texting-hurts-peo/http://www.switched.com/2009/07/19/best-of-the-week-alien-abductions-scare-kids-texting-hurts-peo/> Staff members ask Hillary Clinton why they haven't, like the rest of the world, switched to Firefox. Under Secretary Patrick Kennedy replied something about an expense issue, which sent the State Department, and Internet users, into hysterical laughter.

Well, I hope they're laughing at their own incompetence.

Any type of major (or even minor) software change, even if the software is "free," is never free in a business environment. Come on, get real - anyone with even half an hour of real-world business experience knows that. There's a little something called "support," not to mention the actual hours needed to apply the systemwide upgrade and knock out any issues anyone might have.

It's as stupid as those people who say "lolz biznasses shud jus lik, get rid of windoze from m$$$$ and get linucks, dude!!111oneone its lik free n stufff y0," because it's so far from free in support costs that it's not funny.]]>Jul 19th 2009 9:29PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/07/19/best-of-the-week-alien-abductions-scare-kids-texting-hurts-peo/http://www.switched.com/2009/07/19/best-of-the-week-alien-abductions-scare-kids-texting-hurts-peo/Jul 20th 2009 9:32AM