Linux sucks
Felipe Alfaro Solana
lkml at mac.com
Mon Feb 14 13:56:01 UTC 2005
On 14 Feb 2005, at 12:59, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 12:48 +0100, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:
>
>>> I have an issue working for a friend now where MS support is needed.
>>> My friend entered "DLL Purgatory" because of a defect in a version of
>>> MSVCRT.DLL, used by just about everything on the system. The
>>> Knowledge Base article which discloses the defect announces a hotfix
>>> for the problem. But to get the hotfix, one must place a toll call
>>> to
>>> Microsoft and pay the charge for a service call to obtain the fix.
>>
>> This is the kind of "assurance" Microsoft does offer to customers: pay
>> us for our faulty software. And they feel proud about it when they say
>> Linux offers no protection or assurance. Ouch.
>
> No. You are comparing apples and oranges.
>
> Fedora doesn't offer such protection and assurance
I never made any mention about a concrete Linux distribution. I was
talking about MS feeling proud of their "support".
> You'd have to buy a "commercial Linux distro" and pay somebody for such
> assurance.
Yep, that's pretty clear: Fedora is aimed to enthusiasts and people not
willing to pay for support. RHEL, SLES and others are aimed at the
enterprise customer.
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