[wellylug] Forking Linux.

[Enkidu]

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 17:55:19 -0800 (PST), you wrote:
>
>Perhaps we are spoiled with a free OS & expect free support & everything else.
>If you buy a distro, such as Mandrake or Red Hat, you do get support, and
>expert support via phone & email. But you paid for the privilege. Download or
>install a freebie & why should you expect someone to provide free support?
>Seems a bit greedy.
>
Welll I've never used DeadRat's support (tried to, but never
succeeded). I decided in the end that I was paying for the fixes and
upgrades. up2date was my friend.

How many people have asked for an received useful support for their
paid-for distros. This would be a much smaller number than have
searched the knowledge base and obtained a fix.

I'm not sure what my point is here. Rambling as usual. Maybe that the
"phone support" is a chimera and the support (which is generally
excellent) is via knowledge base and regular updates.
>
>(Isn't this getting awfully political? Do we need a wellylug.politics list? 
>:-)  
>
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w

my $politics = "LIFE" ;
my $life = "POLITICS" ;

print "Politics = $politics\n" ;
print "Life = $life\n" ;


Cheers,

Cliff