Rolf Kalbermatter wrote: > "Swinarsky, DJ Derrick (5453) @ IS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Well, so the assumption is that software like LabVIEW from NI or > Windows > or whatever from MS are reliable, while Open Source isn't? Talking > about unbiased prejudice! No- the assumption is that someone else is liable if it goes pear shaped. If you buy a product and at some later date it doesn't do as advertised you can blame (perhaps also legally) the supplier. If it's open source, you can't. Of course, we have a problem with a product that's down to a bug in Windows. Specifically, under Windows2000 at least, the Windows Installer does not function if you have booted the system from something that appears removable- such as a compact flash card on an embedded system. So many things cannot be installed without jumping through hoops with drive images. Microsoft show no interest in fixing it and there's no way we can fix it ourselves. The problem showed up too far down the line to consider changing the OS so we're stuck with it indefinitely. -- Dr. Craig Graham, Software Engineer Advanced Analysis and Integration Limited, UK. http://www.aail.co.uk/
