Messages in this thread |  | | From | (Robert Krawitz) | Subject | Re: Good point of Linux over Windows NT | Date | 23 Jan 1997 14:52:57 GMT |
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In article <32E699B8.72B3D251@uninetcom.it> Alessandro Suardi <asuardi@uninetcom.it> writes:
Corporate users want to be able to scream "we are paying for your OS so run and give us what we ask", they don't want to have to explain to their top managers that Linus had a baby and he could not fix the bug in the Linux kernel yesterday.
That doesn't mean that commercial software vendors will actually fix the bug at all, much less in any reasonable amount of time.
The motto is "if something goes wrong the folks who gave me the OS are responsible for that", which will never be true on Linux.
Responsibility does not equate with actually doing anything. Microsoft may be responsible for bugs in Windows; does that mean that they'll actually do anything about it if you're not a significant revenue source for them? -- Robert Krawitz <rlk@tiac.net> http://www.tiac.net/users/rlk/
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