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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:4964 comp.os.linux.misc:33750 comp.os.os2.advocacy:75115 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!gatech!newsfeed.pitt.edu!hudson.lm.com!ivory.lm.com!not-for-mail From: peterb@telerama.lm.com (Peter Berger) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy Subject: Re: Linux thoroughly insulted by Infoworld! Date: 21 Jan 1995 01:28:52 -0500 Organization: Telerama Public Access Internet, Pittsburgh, PA USA Lines: 64 Message-ID: <3fq9j4$7ql@ivory.lm.com> References: <950116203411@lambada> <1995Jan19.015527.16465@cs.cornell.edu> <3fm171$hes@ivory.lm.com> <1995Jan21.052259.12168@ka4ybr.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ivory.lm.com In article <1995Jan21.052259.12168@ka4ybr.com>, Mark A. Horton KA4YBR <mah@ka4ybr.com> wrote: >: That's not saying that Linux people on the net aren't nice. It's saying that >: you get what you pay for. > > Oh yes, I do so enjoy paying for barely literate help desk personnel > to queue my problem for callback from some "technician" who may > actually know how to look up something in a manual (getting an answer > may require a requeue to another group or yet another level and > subsequent callback.) You were saying something about being loutish and insulting, I believe? Let's review the chronology, here: 1) "Linux is great for mission critical apps." 2) "Well, I feel better knowing there's support behind a product." 3) "I've used BSDI support, and they're great. My experiences with them were much more positive than with Usenet. 4) "Well, then your problems weren't tough. And all commercial support departments are staffed by ignorant, barely literate help desk personnel." Ok, dickweed. Let me just observe a few facts: 1) I've used Linux and BSDI. I've used BSDI support. I've talked to "help desk" people whose names are on the defining documents of modern Unices. 2) You have obviously never had any contact with BSDI support. 3) Maybe you should meditate on the ridiculousness of calling the authors of the FFS barely literate in the same message in which you call someone else "insulting, misinformed, [and] unthinking". Moron. >: >The companies that I have worked for have sometimes had this >: >clout, and other times have had no luck in getting problems resolved >: >in a reasonable amount of time. I would argue that the variance in turnaround >: >time for fixing Linux problems is somewhat less. > >: I would argue that you're a raving loon. > > And I, sir, would argue that you are not only an ignorant lout, > but also insulting, misinformed, unthinking, and not at all > humourous. > > > Fondest wishes for a speedy recovery. Hope the implant takes. :) > Mark > >-- >Everything I learned to make me a UNIX guru I learned in grammar school... >it was under the general subject entitled "reading." >------------------------------------------------------------ >Mark A. Horton ka4ybr mah@ka4ybr.atlanta.com >Systems and Network Performance Tuning mah@ka4ybr.atl.ga.us >+1.404.371.0291 : 33 45 31 N / 084 16 59 W mah@ka4ybr.com -- ...................................................................... Peter G. Berger, Esq. Telerama Public Access Internet, Pittsburgh Internet: peterb@telerama.lm.com Phone: 412/481-3505 Fax: 412/481-8568 http://www.lm.com/~peterb