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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:4982 comp.os.linux.misc:33778 comp.os.os2.advocacy:75201 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!spool.mu.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!ai-lab!life.ai.mit.edu!burley From: burley@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Craig Burley) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy Subject: Re: Linux thoroughly insulted by Infoworld! Date: 21 Jan 1995 16:17:56 GMT Organization: Free Software Foundation 545 Tech Square Cambridge, MA 02139 Lines: 19 Message-ID: <BURLEY.95Jan21111756@apple-gunkies.gnu.ai.mit.edu> References: <950116203411@lambada> <1995Jan18.214037.6088@cs.cornell.edu> <3fk4hi$iu8@solaris.cc.vt.edu> <D2pK11.EJx@madge1.demon.co.uk> <3fpk32$80i@unix.sri.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: apple-gunkies.gnu.ai.mit.edu In-reply-to: nate@sneezy.sri.com's message of 21 Jan 1995 00:21:54 GMT In article <3fpk32$80i@unix.sri.com> nate@sneezy.sri.com (Nate Williams ) writes: Free software is great, but there is more room for *supported* software in the commercial world than for free software. When my paycheck is depending on a pice of hardware/software, I want to *know* that it works, and commercial vendors provide me with guaranteed support that NONE of the free software folks will give me. Baloney. If you do your research, you can easily find guaranteed support for free software (just as easily as you can find it for commercial software). Oh, one big difference -- if you don't like the support you get for a particular free-software package, you can just as easily find someone else who'll guarantee support for it. Generally, you can't do that for commercial software. (E.g. if you don't like Microsoft's support for Word, try finding someone else who'll support it!) -- James Craig Burley, Software Craftsperson burley@gnu.ai.mit.edu