Cheaper? Well, perhaps when you require your OS to have some sort of support contract. And your support vendor charges you unhealthy sums.
And then you get to see the value of the millions of dollars you've paid for support contracts that don't protect your systems at all. But those contracts do protect specific employees. When the sky falls down, the big money execs don't have a solution. But it's not their fault because the support experts they pay huge sums don't have solutions either. Somehow paying millions of dollars to support contractors that can't save you is not seen as a fireable offense. Instead it is a career-saving scapegoat.
Within companies that have been bitten this time, the team that wasn't affected because they made better process decisions will not be promoted as smarter. Their voice will continue to be marginalized by the people whose decisions led to this disaster. Because, hey, look, everyone got bit right? Nobody looks around to notice the people who were not bitten and recognize their better choices. And "I told you so" is a pretty bad look right now.
And then you get to see the value of the millions of dollars you've paid for support contracts that don't protect your systems at all. But those contracts do protect specific employees. When the sky falls down, the big money execs don't have a solution. But it's not their fault because the support experts they pay huge sums don't have solutions either. Somehow paying millions of dollars to support contractors that can't save you is not seen as a fireable offense. Instead it is a career-saving scapegoat.
Within companies that have been bitten this time, the team that wasn't affected because they made better process decisions will not be promoted as smarter. Their voice will continue to be marginalized by the people whose decisions led to this disaster. Because, hey, look, everyone got bit right? Nobody looks around to notice the people who were not bitten and recognize their better choices. And "I told you so" is a pretty bad look right now.