On Sat, Jun 04, 2011 at 06:47:34PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Apparently, though unproven, at 13:35 on Saturday 04 June 2011, Indi did > opine > thusly: > > > You say OS X is "good enough" > > I say you've got some mighty low standards. > > My manager's predecessor's precedessor's precedessor had the same thing with > SuSE and installed that goddamn piece of shit on 100+ boxes. > > Sure, it all looks neat after first install. Sybase ASE goes on and starts up > real nice as do all sorts of other proprietary (and despoke) apps. Wait 6 > months, try do a perfectly reasonable upgrade. Something easy like, say > syslog-ng-1.6 to syslog-ng-3.x. Carnage. > > There's a certain mentality that goes with these New! Improved! Shiny! OSes > and their magic sauce special apps. They only work if you use it exactly as > the vendors thinks - which is necessarily an extremely narrow view. > > /etc ain't broke, I can't understand why SuSE insists on fixing it >
It's the desire to create something only you can fix, so you get users over a barrel. Windows mentality... -- caveat utilitor ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤
