Ubuntu vs Freespire

[Sylvain Girard]

You know that, I know that, and most people here know that, but the
others...

About that proprietary software however:
My last 2 projects were the configuration of CMS, a pretty big one. The
company I work for is VAR for them. If we issue a bug, it gets fixed within
a very reasonable amount of time, depending on the severity of course. This
is not only for bugs but for missing features also. Ok, this is a very big
exception, but nevertheless...

On 8/24/06, Alan Mckinnon <alan at linuxholdings.co.za> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 10:56 +0200, Sylvain Girard wrote:
> > The general problem with opensource software is that there is usually
> > no corporation of somekind that can be held responsible in case of...
> > Companies (schools) fear this, they fear that they need to solve their
> > own problems without the possibility of sueing someone. Redhat tried
> > to tackle this problem by certification programs that were much more
> > expensive then the certifications for windows, so eventually, the
> > prices would be the same.
> > The opensource app needs a corporate face to be publicly integrated or
> > accepted, imo...
> >
>
> Hah! The fallacy of corporate responsibility and that they can actually
> be held responsible for their mistakes. And people actually believe that
> drivel. There's one born every minute, and I suppose bullshit really
> does baffle brains.
>
> The proof: Take any piece of proprietary software and find a problem it
> caused. If you can't find one, phone me and I'll give you one of many
> dozen sitting in this handy file I have right here. Then get the vendor
> to be responsible. You get 1 bonus point if you get them to reply, 5
> bonus points if the reply is on-topic, 25 if they fix the bug sometime
> this year and a special 100 points if they reimburse you your losses.
> If the vendor happens to be Microsoft, multiply your bonuses by 5 and go
> to the top of the class.
>
> The truth, as taught by the school of hard knocks, is that proprietary
> software from an incorporated vendor is backed up by exactly the same
> amount of corporate responsibility as OSS: sweet f all.
>
> alan
>
>
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Sylvain Girard

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