Hi all, My apologies for raising this question on this list.
Regards, Rajkamal On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 9:35 PM, Mahesh T. Pai <paiva...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
