[ILUG] Red Hat in Easons.

[Aidan Kehoe]

 Ar an 3u la de mi 10, scriobh Justin Mason :

 > Yep.  Aidan, have you ever submitted a bug report to Microsoft?  

I don't use their products. (Except for their fine TrueType fonts.) No
reason to report bugs.

 > One of the main practical (ie. not ideological) reasons *I* use free
 > software, is that the small company I work for is *never* going to get
 > anything like service out of any of the big vendors.  It takes megabucks
 > to get a support contract that'll do that, and only other big co's can
 > afford it.

Meh, yeah, that's practical. It does assume you can program, though. 

 > It's much more affordable to use free software and *fix* it if it doesn't
 > work.

If the software company was doing its job properly, they would fix it
for you, given a clear enough bug report. That they don't isn't an
abstract reason not to use proprietary software, just a pragmatic
one. 

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