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From: burley@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Craig Burley)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux thoroughly insulted by Infoworld!
Date: 21 Jan 1995 16:17:56 GMT
Organization: Free Software Foundation 545 Tech Square Cambridge, MA 02139
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In-reply-to: nate@sneezy.sri.com's message of 21 Jan 1995 00:21:54 GMT

In article <3fpk32$80i@unix.sri.com> nate@sneezy.sri.com (Nate Williams ) writes:

   Free software is great, but there is more room for *supported* software in
   the commercial world than for free software.  When my paycheck is depending on
   a pice of hardware/software, I want to *know* that it works, and commercial
   vendors provide me with guaranteed support that NONE of the free software folks
   will give me.

Baloney.  If you do your research, you can easily find guaranteed
support for free software (just as easily as you can find it for
commercial software).  Oh, one big difference -- if you don't like
the support you get for a particular free-software package, you can
just as easily find someone else who'll guarantee support for it.
Generally, you can't do that for commercial software.  (E.g. if you
don't like Microsoft's support for Word, try finding someone else
who'll support it!)
--

James Craig Burley, Software Craftsperson    burley@gnu.ai.mit.edu