On 3/17/2011 1:05 PM, Joe Konecny wrote: > > 2. In my experience I have found that quite a few proprietary products > work better than the open source equivalent. Don't get me wrong... I > love open source and use quite a bit of it. Firefox, Thunderbird, > Openoffice, Hylafax, Linux, FreeBSD, Samba, Backuppc... the list goes > on... and all in a corporate setting. But quite a few of these cause > me problems and headaches compatibility wise that if I wasn't such an > open source zealot I would eagerly move to a closed source program.
When 2 things have compatibility problems, it doesn't seem fair to blame just one of them, especially the one that is closed source, doesn't follow any standards, and almost certainly introduces undocumented changes just to be anti-competitive. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Colocation vs. Managed Hosting A question and answer guide to determining the best fit for your organization - today and in the future. http://p.sf.net/sfu/internap-sfd2d _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/