Not just computers but life in general. You get what you pay for. That's a consistant theme in life, whether you buy a used car, to the clothes on your back.
Take care!!!! -----Original Message----- From: Chris Hoogendyk [mailto:hoogen...@bio.umass.edu] Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 3:14 PM To: Steve Handy Cc: 'bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net' Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Never Mind - Given up on Bacula Steve Handy wrote: > Life has taught me you get what you pay for. > > <and> > > On Thu, 12 Feb 2009, Steve Handy wrote: > >> Good Afternoon Everyone, >> >> Never mind to the earlier post - "Bacula BLOCK issue where already >> created volumes not being read". I have come to the conclusion that Bacula >> is simply too unstable. You get what you pay for!!!! >> So much for a lot of the internet, linux, open source, foss, . . . . I guess that leaves Microsoft, Vista, NetBackup, etc. And, of course, no one ever complains about them. There is more than one way to pay for something. In the open source community lots of people contribute their time and effort back into the community. This makes many of the open source products much richer. For example, I doubt anyone can fairly argue that linux has not made much more progress than Windows in the last 10 years. While Windows may have a larger user base, those are just passive users paying their money while Microsoft profits. There are far more people actively involved in linux. If someone claims a security glitch in Windows, Microsoft huddles behind closed doors; and, maybe, in a few months or a year or more a fix is released. If someone claims a security glitch in linux, anyone can look at the code. Large numbers of people do. Fixes are more forthcoming. You can take Bacula or leave it. You can look at the code. I make decisions like that all the time. My servers have dozens of primary software packages delivering their services. There are many more packages and libraries behind those that fill out dependencies. All of it is open source. If you choose to use open source, then choose what you like and work with it. Contribute to it in whatever way you can. Offer constructive commentary. If you choose not to use it, then just leave it be. Your barbs serve no one. -- --------------- Chris Hoogendyk - O__ ---- Systems Administrator c/ /'_ --- Biology & Geology Departments (*) \(*) -- 140 Morrill Science Center ~~~~~~~~~~ - University of Massachusetts, Amherst <hoogen...@bio.umass.edu> --------------- Erdös 4 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
