Toby Smithe wrote: > On Fri, 2006-12-29 at 12:16 +0000, James Tait wrote:
[...] > I find it astonishing that people are more prepared to support software > which they cannot see the code. We are deeply immersed in a society of Marketing an dretail advertising, with a known larg edash of hype. Our economy almost depends upon it. 'I advertise, therefore I am' (apologies to Descartes). Consequently, if I do not advertise, therefore I do not exist. The concept of OpenSource is never advertised in the million conventional retail methods. In the retail environment, Open Source does not exist. > I don't understand how debugging > happens. It doesn't, and this is why people are always complaining that > support departments are terrible. Time was that no one ever got sacked for 'buying IBM'. Now it is 'buying Microsoft'. >We can fix this! yup -- alan cocks Kubuntu user#10391 -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
