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Re: guaranteed technical support

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Jim Pick:
> One good thing about the frenzy in response to the Bill Machrone article
> was that he wrote about Linux (and it's so-called advocates) for an 
> additional two weeks.

"Any publicity is good publicity" might work in the commercial world.
It doesn't work for freeware, which relies on its good reputation.

> Anyways, it wouldn't hurt Byte to be a little bit more accurate in their
> reporting -- I hope they do catch some flak.

To the extent of people organizing a distributed mailbomb for the
author?  I think not.

We don't _know_ what BYTE will write. We've seen a short blurb
about an upcoming article, which is supposed to be provocative
to get people interested. Also, it wasn't even incorrect, all
three negative remarks were arguable:

	and what it doesn't: guaranteed technical support,
	mature development tools, and SMP.

We don't have guaranteed technical support -- we have claims of
hordes of companies doing support. Usually the only one mentioned
by name is Cygnus, and they expressly do not support Linux itself.

We have a mature gcc, and a few pretty mature libraries. We
don't have good GUI builders, well-known databases, easy-to-use
GUI development environments, and a score of other tools that
seem to be common on Windows.

We have rudimentary SMP. It works, but the single global kernel
lock is not a bragging item.

Wait until you've read the article until you slam it, and when
you do, read it objectively and attack only factual errors.

This is probably not a suitable topic for debian-private, so I
won't discuss this further. Replies via private mail, thank you.

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