On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 07:01:03PM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > John Hasler wrote: > >Kevin Mark writes: > > > >>compare what you get from the windows world. no community. no help. need > >>to buy $$$ books. pay $$$$ for tech support. > > This is an outright falsehood. There are just as many, if not more, > MS Windows oriented user groups/communities as there are for GNU/Linux. > Granted, tech support is still expensive. > Hi Roberto, I guess its been so long since I have had any contact with M$ that I forgot about the people like those at my local pc users groups. Yes, you are correct. mea culpa. ==:-) -Kev
> > > > > >Whereas here you get community and free help, and can _also_ buy books and > >tech support. If what you are getting for free isn't good enough try > >offering money. > > I think the same is true of the MS Windows world. The difference > is that with GNU/Linux, and free software in general, the end user > and tech support have a much greater sphere of influence because of > the ability to directly patch and modify the source of a particular > app. > > -Roberto
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