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From: mdw@cs.cornell.edu (Matt Welsh)
Subject: Re: Linux thoroughly insulted by Infoworld!
Message-ID: <1995Jan21.201912.10160@cs.cornell.edu>
Organization: Cornell CS Robotics and Vision Laboratory, Ithaca, NY 14850
References: <3fm171$hes@ivory.lm.com> <1995Jan21.052259.12168@ka4ybr.com> <3fq9j4$7ql@ivory.lm.com>
Date: Sat, 21 Jan 1995 20:19:12 GMT
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In article <3fq9j4$7ql@ivory.lm.com> peterb@telerama.lm.com (Peter Berger) writes:
>1) "Linux is great for mission critical apps."
>2) "Well, I feel better knowing there's support behind a product."

Fine. Then pay one of the many companies providing Linux software or 
support to provide it for you. Just because Linux is developed on the
Internet does not mean that commercial support isn't available. In
fact, a great deal of support is available, and you can pick and choose
which company to go with (as opposed to relying on a single company---the
software vendor alone---to do the job right). 

If you really must have that assurance of "commercial support", it's out
there. Most people have found that with Linux it's really not necessary,
but I can certainly understand that a company using Linux for mission-
critical apps would like to have that to fall back upon. 

>Ok, dickweed.  
>
>[...]
>
>Moron.

Is name-calling really necessary, or do you feel that it helps to 
lower yourself below the level of the people you're flaming? It might
help your argument to exhibit some decency.

mdw