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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!europa.clark.net!newsfeed2!news.easystreet.com!not-for-mail From: tedm@portsoft.com Newsgroups: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD (or something else?) Date: 17 Apr 1997 06:45:24 GMT Organization: Easystreet Online Services Lines: 28 Message-ID: <5j4gu4$sjc$12@easystreet03> References: <slrn5kaf5t.11r.c_chaos@chaosnet.wahnapitae.on.ca> <01bc4136$20f68ec0$78c5a9c6@win95> <3345FD90.4A3@kashmir.net> <5ipv9f$itd$1@halcyon.com> <5iqpqu$kfm$1@hecate.umd.edu> Reply-To: tedm@portsoft.com NNTP-Posting-Host: mail.portsoft.com X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.2.5 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au alt.os.linux:20227 comp.os.linux.misc:170234 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39193 In <5iqpqu$kfm$1@hecate.umd.edu>, marat@Glue.umd.edu (Marat Fayzullin) writes: >Tim Smith (tzs@halcyon.com) wrote: >The "I wanna it to work, but don't wanna know how it works" is an attitude >of an arrogant ignorant idiot taking everything around him for granted. >Very common in US though. Not arrogance, just training. In the US here we have all these people who have a vested interest in keeping you ignorant. For example, you go buy a car and you don't get a service manual with it, you have to spend an extra $200 for that. You buy a washing machine or a furnace and you get the same thing. You buy a computer and they don't include the jumper settings, etc. etc. etc. This way when the headlight busts in the car since you don't have the $200 service manual to tell you where the hidden screws are located, most people end up going to the dealer and spending $75 for them to fix it. Of course while your car is there having that done to it the service department "finds" a bunch of other stuff that "really should be fixed", or tries to sell you new tires or some such. Here in the US you really have to be a total asshole when your buying stuff these days in order to get some sembalance of documentation to go with it to enable you to fix it if it breaks. Companies just have too much selfish interest in making it almost impossible to repair anything, except for their authorized minions. This attitude is unfortunately spreading, though. For example, half of the computer monitor manufacturers won't supply repair schematics even to service places. NEC, for example, will only repair monitors at the factory.