In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz
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wrote
on Fri, 19 May 2006 14:46:33 +0100
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> Microsoft: Open source 'not reliable or dependable'
>
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> | The software giant characterises open source as mainly of interest to
> | local community projects, without the benefits of a commercial model
> |
> | A senior Microsoft executive told a BBC World documentary that people
> | should use commercial software if they're looking for stability.
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> http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39270042,00.htm
>
> Stability?!?!?! Of all arguments available, one primary weakness is described
> as a strength.
>
> Case study: Maybe they should explain why the IT folks over he have been
> running for the past week trying to fix the Exchange server. This has gone
> on for _several_ months <
> http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2006/01/09/exchange-servers-failure/
>>. In fact, the mail server will down all day today, until 5PM. "Due to
> maintenance", they say.
The mind reels. I've lost count of the IE6 hangs,
botchups, and confusion. (Mozilla admittedly could be
a little better, but Moz on a bad day beats IE6 on a
good one.)
Sendmail, DFS's complaints about it being a propagator
notwithstanding, just never goes down -- at least as far
as I know (I'm not in IT).
Stability? When three months is a "crazy uptime"? Ye gods.
What a strange argument to come from the Behemoth.
I'll admit to some curiosity of the "benefits of a
commercial model". The only benefit I see is making money,
and admittedly there is something to that.
Good thing BBC isn't listening too carefully:
$ wget --server-response -O /dev/null http://www.bbc.co.uk/
--08:49:52-- http://www.bbc.co.uk/
=> `/dev/null'
Resolving www.bbc.co.uk... 212.58.240.120
Connecting to www.bbc.co.uk|212.58.240.120|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response...
HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 15:49:52 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Expires: Fri, 19 May 2006 15:49:52 GMT
Cache-Control: max-age=0
Server: Apache/2.0.54 (Unix)
Set-Cookie: BBC-UID=...
expires=Tue, 18-May-10 15:49:52 GMT; path=/; domain=bbc.co.uk;
Set-Cookie: BBCNewsAudience=International; path=/; domain=.bbc.co.uk;
expires=Sat, 20-May-2006 15:49:52 GMT
Set-Cookie: BBC-UID=...
expires=Tue, 18-May-10 15:49:52 GMT; path=/; domain=bbc.co.uk;
Pragma: nocache
Via: 1.1 netcache01inhq (NetCache NetApp/5.5R4)
Length: unspecified [text/html]
*snort*
(Erm...wait. How come the cookies are already expired???)
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