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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:4954 comp.os.linux.misc:33689 comp.os.os2.advocacy:74961 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!peernews.demon.co.uk!demon!madge1.demon.co.uk!mmoreton From: mmoreton@madge1.demon.co.uk (Mike Moreton) Subject: Re: Linux thoroughly insulted by Infoworld! Organization: Madge Networks Date: Fri, 20 Jan 1995 14:24:36 GMT Message-ID: <D2pK11.EJx@madge1.demon.co.uk> Followup-To: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] References: <950116203411@lambada> <1995Jan18.214037.6088@cs.cornell.edu> <3fk4hi$iu8@solaris.cc.vt.edu> Lines: 12 matthew c. mead (mmead@goof.com) wrote: : 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. Of course it won't actually do you any good, because first they'll try to say it's your fault, then they'll misuderstand the problem, and say that it's fixed by a release which fixes some entirely different bug. If you finally get them to accept the problem, they'll say that it'll be fixed in the next release in twenty-five years time, which unfortunately it'll get accidentally left out of...