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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:5126 comp.os.linux.misc:34186 comp.os.os2.advocacy:76453 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!news.ysu.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!pipex!uknet!info!iialan From: iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk (Alan Cox) Subject: Re: Linux thoroughly insulted by Infoworld! X-Nntp-Posting-Host: iifeak.swan.ac.uk Message-ID: <D32HyG.2vI@info.swan.ac.uk> Sender: news@info.swan.ac.uk Organization: Institute For Industrial Information Technology References: <950116203411@lambada> <1995Jan18.214037.6088@cs.cornell.edu> <3fk4hi$iu8@solaris.cc.vt.edu> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 1995 14:08:39 GMT Lines: 21 In article <3fk4hi$iu8@solaris.cc.vt.edu> mmead@goof.com (matthew c. mead) writes: >it all you want. If you'd ever been in industry, you would know the need for >product support. 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. Mission-critical applications need to have a supported OS. And for >industry, on the net, donated help is not an option. Erm I can pay Sun for SUN support or I can pay assorted people for support for Linux. In a seriously critical situation most modern day product support is worth zilch. "It keeps crashing when X happens", "Don't do X", "But its vital we do", "We'll get back to you later on" Week passes.... and you find you are bug report number 3111714 to be fixed by next major release ( 6 months time ). Alan -- ..-----------,,----------------------------,,----------------------------,, // Alan Cox // iialan@www.linux.org.uk // GW4PTS@GB7SWN.#45.GBR.EU // ``----------'`--[Anti Kibozing Signature]-'`----------------------------'' One two three: Kibo, Lawyer, Refugee :: Green card, Compaq come read me...