You know that, I know that, and most people here know that, but the others...<br><br>About that proprietary software however:<br>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...
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/24/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Alan Mckinnon</b> <<a href="mailto:alan@linuxholdings.co.za">alan@linuxholdings.co.za</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 10:56 +0200, Sylvain Girard wrote:<br>> The general problem with opensource software is that there is usually<br>> no corporation of somekind that can be held responsible in case of...<br>> Companies (schools) fear this, they fear that they need to solve their
<br>> own problems without the possibility of sueing someone. Redhat tried<br>> to tackle this problem by certification programs that were much more<br>> expensive then the certifications for windows, so eventually, the
<br>> prices would be the same.<br>> The opensource app needs a corporate face to be publicly integrated or<br>> accepted, imo...<br>><br><br>Hah! The fallacy of corporate responsibility and that they can actually
<br>be held responsible for their mistakes. And people actually believe that<br>drivel. There's one born every minute, and I suppose bullshit really<br>does baffle brains.<br><br>The proof: Take any piece of proprietary software and find a problem it
<br>caused. If you can't find one, phone me and I'll give you one of many<br>dozen sitting in this handy file I have right here. Then get the vendor<br>to be responsible. You get 1 bonus point if you get them to reply, 5<br>
bonus points if the reply is on-topic, 25 if they fix the bug sometime<br>this year and a special 100 points if they reimburse you your losses.<br>If the vendor happens to be Microsoft, multiply your bonuses by 5 and go<br>
to the top of the class.<br><br>The truth, as taught by the school of hard knocks, is that proprietary<br>software from an incorporated vendor is backed up by exactly the same<br>amount of corporate responsibility as OSS: sweet f all.
<br><br>alan<br><br><br><br>--<br>ubuntu-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br><a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users
</a><br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Best regards,<br>Sylvain Girard<br><br>Consultant<br>Valoris NV<br><a href="mailto:girard.sylvain@gmail.com">girard.sylvain@gmail.com</a><br><a href="http://www.valoris.com">
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