abigail [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth:
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*>As a tech person, and pronent of Open Source, I say that having the right
*>support contracts can be live saving. Whether it's overnight shipment of
*>new parts, or ftp-ing a core dump of a kernel and having the bug fixed in
*>the next release. Open Source is nice, but only very few companies have
*>the tuits and employer time to spare to actually fix bugs or add features.
*>Responsiveness to bugs is important - and indepent of a product being
*>Open Source or not.
When you have a website that loses 1 million dollars per minute and you
need stuff fixed pronto, there is nothing that says I love you like a
Platinum support contract and a support engineer who will call the guy who
wrote the kernel for the filer out at the pool to compile you a new
version of wack because they shipped without a working version. [ true
story ]. If someone could do that level of support for perl, things might
be a bit different.
Working for geek cred is one thing, working for 1 million a minute in
liability and adverts is quite another.
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