Author: Zachariah Amela
Date: 16:24:31 10/12/99
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> >MS doesn't MAKE you do anything. Perhaps..... > >The problem with the Linux/Windows debate is that it is pointless. Each OS has >it's own portion of the market. Each OS has it's own followers. Each OS has it's >own strengths and weaknesses. I don't know if the debate is compeletely pointless, but I agree each OS has strenghts and weaknesses. > >Just because MS decided to make money with some of their beta products does not >make their OS' any better or worse. It just makes MS more market savvy than the >rest of the industry. And, just because there are a bunch of Linux guru's out >there who are used to "free software" (including beta releases of non-Linux >products) does not make purchased software (beta or release) worse either. I too don't understand the Linux credo of never paying for software. Frankly, if someone offered a decent dev. envir. like VB, a good CAD program and a DBMS like Access for Linux I would be happy to shell out the cash. Right now Linux is light-years behind in the department of offering high-quality commercial software. It's my opinion that situation won't be forever, though. > >And assuming a major differentiation between beta and released software for >purchasing purposes is dubious at best. I have seen beta software that you >cannot find a bug in and I have seen released software that is so buggy as to be >unusable. Sure, I've found beta software that works great. In MY experience however, the vast majority of beta software caused so much trouble, I'm not going to risk it on mission critical machines. I'm not going to waste dozens of hours fixing someone else's problem. On my home machine: Sure, I can see DLing some beta software. At work, no way, now how. From my point of view, a purchased beta product can be considered the >same as the old style service pack 0 released version of a product, they just >changed the name. And, I know I will be upgrading it with further service packs >regardless. I can't stand the phrase "Service Pack." It's a bug fix. Nothing irritates me more is when I call MS and the first thing the rep. blurts out is "Did ya download the latest service pack?" Yeah right, my job revolves around keeping track of all of MS's bug fixes. > >KarinsDad :) Sorry KarinsDad. I think we'll have to agree to disagree on this one. :^)
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