> Learns Patience and etiquette in mailing listsLearns to ask and be grateful to thiose
> that help
> Increases the desire to help others ... who actually want help and not to criticise
> Learns about there own computer and how it all works
If I understand what you say, then it appears that we are at cross-purposes. In the
situation here, the computer and the OS are tools used to achieve a required purpose.
If
your family car continually breaks down, you replace it because you need
transportation,
not a car-fixing learning experience. It is all well and good to learn the workings of
the
computer and the OS, but not when that gets in the way of doing useful work with them.
In
that context, reliability is far more important than anything else. Trust me, when a
customer buys a complex and costly machine from us, he wants to be able to rely upon it
working without undue failure for a long time.
> > Clearly, system reliability is not
> > it. In what other field of commerce or industry is such finicky and unreliable
> > behaviour deemed acceptable? How long do you think my company would last if the
> > users of our machines had to yell for help as often as Linux users do?
>
> Interesting, you must be comparing the Linux user groups to MS tech support lines. I
> guess those lines are empty of tracffic these days now that NT and Win 95 are so
> reliable !
No, we do not have any good experience with MS support, nor do we need any from them.
Please note that I have not said, suggested, or implied that we have relied upon MS for
support. Merely that we have not needed to do so.
> > Or, are such
> > questions beneath Linux's dignity to answer?
>
> As you have not invested as much $ in your Linux as say your NT , then it must be
>easy
> top go back to NT with little loss. Perhaps simply the question may linger, how do
>all
> thiose other people derive such reliabuility from their systems?They must all be
> deluded!
That one user is able to get reliable service from a product is no assurance that
another
will. This must surely be obvious. Also, we are not proposing to use Linux in place of
NT.
As the purpose of the OS is to enable one to use application software, and as the
software
available for Linux is microscopic compared to that available for NT, it's no contest.
Linux was being considered for applications for which NT is not suitable. We had and
have
no intention of replacing NT with Linux or any other OS in those situations where we
are
now using it.
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