Vivek Puri said on Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 09:27:28AM +0530,: > What if the software is run on Linux ?
Please view various FLOSS based public fora - mailing lists, groups, irc chat rooms, etc - as customer care centers for FLOSS software. In fact, at least one project (IIRC, Emacs), advertises their IRC channel as the "customer support". > As its perfect to mix open source and closed sourced softwares, I In licensing terms, yes. In technical sense, again, yes. > think it is fair to raise such question ... as long as the person > raising the question has taken effort to ensure the problem is not > related to closed sourced components. Although that doesn't seem to > be the case here ;) As somebody pointed out yesterday on this thread, reason this piece of closed s/w sells is customer support they provide. I feel that it was sufficient hint to approach them. > With better tools like Jboss and glassfish available in Open > source world we should encourage people to use Oracle Weblogic > because sometimes best way to teach someone is to let them shoot > themselves in the foot. Heh. Agree on the latter part of your reasoning; not the first part the - "... encourage people to use ..." one. Sometimes, even trial usage ends in conviction and sentence to permanent bondage. -- Mahesh T. Pai || With freedom comes responsibility. Do not use unauthorised copies of copyrighted material. _______________________________________________ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
