Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2020 21:59:05 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org> Cc: Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com>, Ralf Mardorf <ralf-mardorf@riseup.net>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, Paul Pathiakis <pathiaki2@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: Ask stupid questions and you'll get a stupid answers, was: Technological advantages over Linux Message-ID: <20200724215905.8c863ae3.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <C5D4C622-AF53-4A21-925D-69B96FF8FD70@mail.sermon-archive.info> References: <20200214121620.GA80657@admin.sibptus.ru> <CAEJNuHwRs=6kOK9uiFzEAqCgSgvUb8Xm5o2VWnK-ND_zseowdg@mail.gmail.com> <20200214141600.GA82559@admin.sibptus.ru> <20200214204838.360c8f624397c659946bd764@sohara.org> <20200215063818.GE1482@admin.sibptus.ru> <20200215083359.367d8a3e9ddb4942df67d5b5@sohara.org> <58202623-bbf7-eda0-5cb5-fb4749e91e20@watters.ws> <CAEJNuHxbFSPBB7keSrBufpg=RsgQ8EPK_fvzt8XBROLNKyN_sw@mail.gmail.com> <6318251A-973A-4DEC-9271-12333EB11F7B@kicp.uchicago.edu> <CAEJNuHxC7i%2Bq7cq65=my6mJZDdiK4gpQsKjMU1nvsm=Ri4On%2Bg@mail.gmail.com> <800f33cd-0dc1-1ae9-2262-a374bf8c10dd@kicp.uchicago.edu> <20200724170348.51f108ec@archlinux> <1273868562.6647660.1595604615652@mail.yahoo.com> <20200724183331.6363d69c@archlinux> <CAGBxaXnky9nowCdSZd1maQN%2BeGQVm%2Boq%2BtfS-m0aAHhZJDqDPQ@mail.gmail.com> <C5D4C622-AF53-4A21-925D-69B96FF8FD70@mail.sermon-archive.info>
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On Fri, 24 Jul 2020 11:44:57 -0700, Doug Hardie wrote: > > On 24 July 2020, at 11:09, Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > So instead of a great low cost, mature and very well supported/understood > > config they recommended a multi-thousand dollar solution that does not even > > solve the primary issues of DB backups!!! > > I used to work for a large, international company that had a contract > which included the delivery of 100 PCs to Hawaii. When the computers > arrived, 98 of them were non-functional. The solution - send a VP to > Hawaii to explain that is to be expected and "normal" and it was not > out problem to fix them... The core problem is that those who decide about what software (or hardware) to buy or to license are not the ones who will be _using_ it, and their prosition within the company makes them invulnerable to any negative outcome of their decisions. Somewhere down the "trading chain", there is a final consumer who will then be forced pay the bill, one way or another. "It's not my department!" says Wernher von Braun. And today: "Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM!", or just like that... -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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