And what does any of that have to do with what I said?
Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of shogunx Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 4:02 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: SUSE Linux for 390 On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, Post, Mark K wrote: > If and only if ISV certifications are not an issue, and they usually > are. Plus, while I know the gang at SNA does a good job of providing > commercial support for Debian/390, a lot of PHBs are not going to be > willing to use them because they don't have thousands of employees all > over the world. Another reason why PHBs stink, but unfortunately > they're a fact of life. Not that I have a problem with commercial Linux vendors... I don't, nor do I have a problem with anyone making a living from open source support. The roots (no pun intended) of the community are still in effect in the form of a system that anyone CAN use, gratis, with open source and open documentation, and that is what matters. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
