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- Path: sparky!uunet!tis.com!mjr
- From: mjr@tis.com (Marcus J Ranum)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
- Subject: Re: Unix Review review of Alpha/OSF
- Date: 22 Jan 1993 14:44:32 GMT
- Organization: Trusted Information Systems, Inc.
- Lines: 19
- Message-ID: <1jp18gINN23e@sol.tis.com>
- References: <1993Jan20.032354.21323@bilby.cs.uwa.edu.au> <1993Jan20.194415.17508@decuac.dec.com> <C182FK.GJ9@visix.com>
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- abstine@visix.com writes:
- >Again, the assumption is that we're too stupid to manage our own systems
- >and need to have own hands held to the utmost.
-
- That's not it at all. The assumption is that you're stupid enough
- to keep paying for bugfixes for something you bought that was originally
- broken. That "handholding" is a profitable business.
- It bothers me a lot that vendors (any vendor, but since this is
- comp.sys.dec) are willing to sell something with as many stupid, braindamaged,
- un-fixed-since-N-releases-ago-but-have-been-QARred-so-often-there's-a-FAQ
- bugs in it, but they want to charge an arm and a leg to fix it. I have
- no problem with a vendor telling me that if I want ULTRIX4.3 I need to
- pay for it, but they should *FIX* my older version for a reasonable
- amount of time and they should eat the cost of the bad software, not
- pass it on to the customer.
-
- mjr.
- --
- "guns don't die. people do."
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