A Dimarts 01 Febrer 2005 14:03, Johannes Klug va escriure: > Filippo Carone wrote: > >* Daniel James ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ha scritto: > >>upwards. Providing high quality end-user support for that product is > >>just a physical impossibility, even for a company the size of > >>Microsoft. > > > >imho Microsoft lacks community > > I don't think so. > The Microsoft Community(tm) differs from the FOSS-community, though. > FOSS people will write docs, test betas, send patches, maintain projects > and so forth. > MS's community has 10% of what I would call "helpers". These 10% of MS > users are proficient in hardware, software, and MS Windows. They are the > guys the nonproficient users use to call, when they "got some new > hardware and it doesn't work". Or whenever their Windows b0xen behaves > oddly (...). > > Microsoft profits greatly from these "helpers", since they give support > for their own flawed software FOR FREE. Remember, Microsoft seeks > profit, and these guys work for them for free. > I used to be a "helper", and within my family I still am. It's just too > hard to tell dad "No, I won't fix MS's shit, go open a support call". > But I deny help with MS products to almost everybody else. I offer them > to solve their problem by switching to Debian, however :) > > Regards, > Johannes
Reading this, I could't avoid to mention this document: http://pinsa.escomposlinux.org/sromero/linux/pringao/techslacky.html and their final sentence: "Remember, don't be Microsoft's technical support!" this sentence have to be marked in our the face of ALL of us that have suffer this. I enjoy a lot mere and feel better doing the same but with Debian/Linux. regards -- -- Linux User 152692 Catalonia -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
