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Earle Nietzel
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>> 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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>> > David Fisher
>> > Chief Engineer
>> > Fisher Research Corporation
>> > Rochester, New York
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