[ubuntu-za] Nice comment

Simon Cross hodgestar at gmail.com
Thu Feb 21 23:37:55 GMT 2008


On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 3:33 PM, Andrew Alston <aa at tenet.ac.za> wrote:
>  The problem comes in the fact that unfortunately, particularly in the
>  corporate space, there is often far more trust in what is payed for than
>  for what is free.  The logic is simple, if you pay for it, you have
>  someone to scream at when it breaks, if you pay for it, and it breaks,
>  you can point the finger.

This is now largely a strawman argument which belongs back where it
came from -- the mid 90s. These days, if you want support for open
source software, JFBI (just frelling buy it) [1]. Or better yet, pay a
local company for support.

[1] http://www.canonical.com/services/support

Schiavo
Simon



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