LMAO.. I see it now, your makeing a joke out of it..
On Wed, 30 Jun 2004, Frank Knobbe wrote: > On Wed, 2004-06-30 at 22:05, Denis Dimick wrote: > > They pretty much do. That is if the application is one that users have > > found worth supporting. > > Exactly. The responsible parties are doing their job. Now contrast that > with commercial software. > > > So can I assume that you would allow a vendor to remotely patch your > > system? > > Not remotely, but... > > > Like I said, Do you REALLY want a vendor to install patches for you? > > Absolutely. Have them send a technician ON SITE. Have them STAY and fix > the product until it is working. (Free of charge mind you... just like > the free repair of a recalled water pump for your car). If applied > patches crash the system further, it is the responsibility of that > technician (representing the vendor) to get it back in working order. > > If he can't do that.... well.. since he is there, you can hold him > accountable in any way you see fit. :) > > If we were able to mandate such a response, how long do you think it > would take before out-of-the-box software quality improves suddenly? > > > I think Frank that your starting to point out a problem for M$ and other > > vendors. They don't have the money to support there products any longer. > > M$ has somewhere like 20,000 payed programers, How many programers are > > working on open source products? 100,000 plus, maybe more. How do you > > expect a company like M$ to compete? I don't think they can. > > There are a lot of healthy, smaller commercial software shops out there > that produce usable (and often surprisingly good quality) code. They > typically also have good support and decent business ethics. > > Some larger vendors these days are more concerned with increasing their > own wealth rather than producing good quality software. That's > unfortunate. > > In case of Microsoft, I think that this company has grown to such > proportions that it is starting to collapse on itself, much like the > operating system they produce. If that is going to happen as quietly as > a cheese soufle or as loud as a supernova remains to be seen (although > it will be spectacular either way). The next 5-10 years will be > interesting. > > > Anyhow. my main gripe is the sale of broken products. I don't remember > if that was NT4.0 or some other product, but the box came with the CD > for the software, and a CD with patches. "Here, your purchase. It's > broken. Fix it yourself while you install it." > > Regards, > Frank > > _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
