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From: mmoreton@madge1.demon.co.uk (Mike Moreton)
Subject: Re: Linux thoroughly insulted by Infoworld!
Organization: Madge Networks
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 1995 14:24:36 GMT
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matthew c. mead (mmead@goof.com) wrote:
: Can you call Linus and say, "My serial port isn't working
: right.  What do I do?"  No.  Can you call up Sun, or BSDI and do the same?
: Yes. 

Of course it won't actually do you any good, because first they'll try to
say it's your fault, then they'll misuderstand the problem, and say that
it's fixed by a release which fixes some entirely different bug.  If you
finally get them to accept the problem, they'll say that it'll be fixed in
the next release in twenty-five years time, which unfortunately it'll
get accidentally left out of...