Linux sucks

[Felipe Alfaro Solana]

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.