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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!news.unt.edu!replicant!jackson From: jackson@replicant.csci.unt.edu (Bruce Jackson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Unix for PC Date: 6 Dec 1994 22:21:43 GMT Organization: University of North Texas Lines: 22 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <3c2o5o$b65@hermes.unt.edu> References: <199411210319.TAA18133@nic.cerf.net> <pageoneD09Mqx.A3u@netcom.com> <D0CDv6.8v@novell.co.uk> <3c093e$6bm@pdq.coe.montana.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: replicant.csci.unt.edu In article <3c093e$6bm@pdq.coe.montana.edu>, Nate Williams <nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu> wrote: >People in suits 'DO' use free OS's, and saying that they don't is simply >not true. However, for critical projects you NEED to have someone at >the other end of the phone who WILL answer your question and WILL devote >time to fixing YOUR bugs. This is where the free OS's fall short, not >in the way they do development. Seems to me that you can internally support a free OS if you have sources. I have dealt with a lot of different vendors over the years and truthfully I have a lot more faith in my own ability to find and fix bugs than any of the vendors out there. I don't need support, I can handle that myself or find someone brighter than me to look over my shoulder. What I need is source. Of course I have managed to avoid wearing a suit up so far. I guess if I ever get into the mindset of being a suit I may be in the market to find people to blame when I have system problems instead of fixing them myself. -- Bruce Jackson | Univ. of North Texas | jackson@cs.unt.edu UNIX Systems Admin. | P. O. Box 13886 | GAB 550E (817)565-2279 Dept. of Computer Sci.| Denton, Tx. 76203-3886 | FAX: (817)565-2799