At 12:39 AM 3/15/01 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 05:07:35PM -0600, Brent Michalski wrote:
> >
> > Had this been Open Source, we would have fixed the problem ourselves....
>
>Ah, if only that was true. Then Perl wouldn't have long outstanding bugs.
No doubt, but we had the time, resources, and motivation to get it done.
>If I need something done, and the choice is between using
>Open Source, free-of-charge, fix-the-bugs-yourself $TOOL1 and proprietary,
>closed source, $TOOL2 with a yearly support contract of $5000, I most
>likely suggest to boss to go for $TOOL2, because THAT IS CHEAPER. [1]
We also had a huge support contract - that is how we were "privileged"
enough to actually talk to real live Microsoft people. However, support
contract or not - they chose not to fix it.
Brent
