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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:5121 comp.os.linux.misc:34179 comp.os.os2.advocacy:76439 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!serval.net.wsu.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!oracle.pnl.gov!osi-east2.es.net!lll-winken.llnl.gov!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!pipex!uknet!gdt!aber!news.aber.ac.uk!pcg From: pcg@aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy Subject: Re: Linux thoroughly insulted by Infoworld! Date: 26 Jan 1995 16:43:31 GMT Organization: Prifysgol Cymru, Aberystwyth Lines: 16 Distribution: world Message-ID: <PCG.95Jan26164331@osfb.aber.ac.uk> 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> <BURLEY.95Jan21111756@apple-gunkies.gnu.ai.mit.edu> Reply-To: pcg@aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) NNTP-Posting-Host: osfb.aber.ac.uk In-reply-to: burley@gnu.ai.mit.edu's message of 21 Jan 1995 16:17:56 GMT >>> On 21 Jan 1995 16:17:56 GMT, burley@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Craig Burley) said: Craig> Oh, one big difference -- if you don't like the support you get Craig> for a particular free-software package, you can just as easily Craig> find someone else who'll guarantee support for it. Generally, Craig> you can't do that for commercial software. Craig> (E.g. if you don't like Microsoft's support for Word, try finding Craig> someone else who'll support it!) -- It's even more interesting than that: there is an IBM manager on record stating publicly at a conference that his job was to make sure that the documentation of IBM sw products (in his case, OS/2, BTW) was incomplete and obscure enough that third parties would have difficulty supporting it and thus competing with IBM in selling sw support services to IBM customers. It's reported in a recent issue of PC Magazine.