On Sat, 16 Aug 2014 10:36:18 -0400, Thomas Conley wrote: > >I'm working with IBM on the support issues with RD&T, so stay tuned. > There's some constraint of economic reality here: IBM might not be able to afford the resource to support a system with a 4-digit price that they can expend with 6-digit revenues. Particularly given that the character of use of low-end systems may expose more defects per MSU(?) than high-end systems.
OTOH, there's Linus's Law(1): "With enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow." Even the high-end users benefit alike from repairs instigated by users in other categories. -- gil (1) There are two Linus's Laws: one attributable to ESR, the other to Linus. I was thinking of the former, but both might be relevant. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
