Paul Metzger wrote:
> I see your point as well..... I guess I'm looking at this from the small
> business standpoint. It's hard for a small business to pay Microsoft 200
> bucks to ask a question. I do understand you have to take into account the
> time and effort that needs to be spent in getting open stuff up and running,
> but I still think you stand a better chance of getting something done, and
> being able to fix it faster and cheaper than the commerical products. You
> know it takes time to read off you credit card number so they can charge you
> an exorbant<SP??> amount of money, just to tell you there is no fix for your
> problem...
I bet if you had a hard time figuring out any given open source program and
offered the author $200 to answer the question for you, they'd do it
(considering they often do for free).
That's the basis of support for software like MySQL and ReiserFS.
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Michael T. Babcock, C.T.O. FibreSpeed
http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock
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