From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Apr 3 12:57:58 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mired.org (dsl-64-192-6-133.telocity.com [64.192.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C0A1037B41E for ; Wed, 3 Apr 2002 12:57:51 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 85128 invoked by uid 100); 3 Apr 2002 20:57:47 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15531.27851.19169.720598@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 14:57:47 -0600 To: "Anthony Atkielski" Cc: Subject: Re: Anti-Unix Site Runs Unix In-Reply-To: <005e01c1db44$e10d2a40$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <20020402113404.A52321@lpt.ens.fr> <3CA9854E.A4D86CC4@mindspring.com> <20020402123254.H49279@lpt.ens.fr> <009301c1da83$9fa73170$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <15530.6987.977637.574551@guru.mired.org> <012601c1dadb$104d5100$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <15531.2846.277278.29276@guru.mired.org> <005e01c1db44$e10d2a40$0a00000a@atkielski.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: Mike Meyer X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.50 (Python 2.2 on FreeBSD/i386) Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In <005e01c1db44$e10d2a40$0a00000a@atkielski.com>, Anthony Atkielski typed: > Mike writes: > > Microsoft find a way around that. They offload > > the tech support costs onto the supply chain. > Not enough to make much of a difference. If I recall correctly, Microsoft > has one of the largest technical-support organizations in the world. > Practically everyone outside Redmond is either in sales or technical > support. That distribution only makes sense. The internesting question is what percentage of those people are pure support, and what percentage are available to customers at no charge. > > Since even Gates admitted that NT was a > > crash-prone piece of junk ... > When? At the Win2000 launch. > I've found NT to be the most stable desktop operating system I've ever used. I take it you've never used Unix as a desktop operating system, then. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message