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From: grante@reddwarf.rosemount.com (Grant Edwards)
Subject: Re: Linux thoroughly insulted by Infoworld!
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Date: Mon, 23 Jan 1995 06:26:23 GMT
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Peter Berger (peterb@telerama.lm.com) wrote:
: In article <1995Jan21.215418.7742@rosevax.rosemount.com>,
: Grant Edwards <grante@reddwarf.rosemount.com> wrote:
: >: Can you call up Sun, or BSDI and do the same? Yes.  
: >
: >BwaHaHaHa!  Good one!  Of course you can call them up and say "X."  And
: >they tell you "Sorry, mate.  That's life."

: Gee, BSDI has never told me that.  In fact, they're -usually- able to help
: me solve the problem in short order.

Then stick with them.  I've never dealt with BSDI, but my experiences
with support from other vendors hasn't been good.  It gets pretty
frustrating when most of the support people you talk to seem to know
less about the product than you do.

--
Grant Edwards        | Microsoft isn't the   | Yow!  Boys, you have ALL been
Rosemount Inc.       | answer. Microsoft     | selected to LEAVE th' PLANET
                     | is the question, and  | in 15 minutes!!
grante@rosemount.com | the answer is no.     |