Re: Future of linux...

[Leonard Sherman <micros50 computer net>]

As bad as Microsoft is, it's still the best one around!!! I hate 
Microsoft, I hate Windows. It sucks, the crappiest most insecure poorly 
written monopolistic software around. But I wouldn't be caught dead 
without it. Linux has a long way to go before it can match Windows. 
Windows is still light years ahead. Linux is certainly not ready for us 
in the enterprise.


Guy Rouillier wrote:

> Angel Gabriel wrote:
>
> > MS Guy to director:
> > We have a support service that is very low cost, and out telephone staff
> > are specially trained to answer and question
> >
> > Linux Guy:
> > Our support is free, from the people that actually write our software,
> > not from people that are trained to answer support queries
>
>
> There's the rub.  Microsoft is a company.  You may not like them, but 
> you know where they are and you can pick up the phone and call them 
> (which I've done several times as a developer - their MSDN tech 
> support is actually pretty good.)  Many of the Linux developers are 
> very bright, and I use Linux at home when I can (can't figure out how 
> to connect to CheckPoint firewall at work.)  But no open source 
> developer has made any commitment to answer any questions, nor even to 
> stay with the product. Redhat and Mandrake aren't selling software 
> (since you can download it free), they are selling the security of 
> knowing you have someone to call if you need to.