On 5/16/05, Lee Harr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >1) Lack of technical support from the 'vendor'. Since most open source > >software is provided 'free' and is not maintained by a central vendor, > >technical > >support is limited if not non existent. > > I don't know about you, but I think I'd rather have all my teeth pulled > than have to go through front-line tech support on any commercial > product. Any time I've had a real problem with an open source product > I've had nearly instantaneous access (through mailing lists and > newsgroups) to the actual developers of the software. Talk about > service!
This is a misunderstanding: they don't want support, they want someone to blame when something goes wrong. -- JanC _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
