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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:5082 comp.os.linux.misc:34058 comp.os.os2.advocacy:76104 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.rain.org!usenet From: pwalsh@rain.org (Peter Walsh) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy Subject: Re: Linux thoroughly insulted by Infoworld! Date: 26 Jan 1995 17:47:35 GMT Organization: Walsh Computing Lines: 18 Message-ID: <3g8n7n$jrv@news.rain.org> References: <950116203411@lambada> <1995Jan18.214037.6088@cs.cornell.edu> <3fk4hi$iu8@solaris.cc.vt.edu> <D2pK11.EJx@madge1.demon.co.uk> <3fpk32$80i@unix.sri.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: port34.rain.org In article <3fpk32$80i@unix.sri.com>, nate@sneezy.sri.com (Nate Williams ) wrote: > 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. > Personaly, I've never had any "support" from a comercial vendor that was worth a damn. Definitly you should not use linux if you are completely computer illiterate. Dos either for that matter. The only computer for those who don't have a clue is the Mac. Even then, it's not a toster. -- Peter Walsh pwalsh@rain.org