Erik Funkenbusch wrote:
> On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 20:24:42 +0000, B Gruff wrote:
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>> On Wednesday 07 February 2007 20:14 Erik Funkenbusch wrote:
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>>> On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 20:07:16 +0000, B Gruff wrote:
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>>>> On Wednesday 07 February 2007 19:35 Erik Funkenbusch wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 19:13:53 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Symantec: Microsoft conflict of interest is damaging internet
>>>>>>
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>>>>>>| Symantec's chief executive has lambasted Microsoft for a dangerous
>>>>>>| conflict of interest as both the provider of an operating system
>>>>>>| and seller of software designed to secure its users.
>>>>>
>>>>> Much like Linux vendors have a conflict of interest in that they
>>>>> subsist entirely on support contracts, and have no financial incentive
>>>>> to make problem free software.
>>>>
>>>> So tell us Erik - how much (what proportion) of the software that they
>>>> are vending do they make?
>>>
>>> In most cases, All of it, or at least some portion of all or most of it.
>>> They have to package and configure each application in their repository
>>> to
>>> fit their directory and support structure. For example, SUSE
>>> applications
>>> have to support SUSEconfig. They apply patches in many cases as well.
>>
>> Ah - right - so you think that software problems are in the "make" rather
>> than the write and test?
>
> I'm simply saying that no open source vendor can afford to make software
> problem or bug free. They'd go out of business.
And again Erik F shows his extreme dishonesty
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If they were committed to Linux, they'd be developing exclusively for
Linux. - Funkenbusch 17 Oct 2006
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