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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Mon Oct 29 21:55:32 UTC 2007
Timothy Murphy wrote:
>> _If_ you are Alan Cox or some number of
>> hackers with equivalently specialized skills that you could probably
>> count on one hand, having the source code available might be of some
>> value when the supplied binary doesn't work. The rest of us report the
>> bug and wait, and again in my experience over the last couple of
>> decades, the closed source providers are at least equally responsive in
>> this scenario.
>
> Really?
> When did you last get a positive response from a closed source provider?
In the windows/mac worlds, I can't say that I've needed anything in
years that wasn't already done and available on the vendor's web site.
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Les Mikesell
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