Subj : Re: GNU Public Licences Revisited (again)
To   : comp.programming
From : Vesa Karvonen
Date : Wed Aug 24 2005 12:26 am

Randy Howard <randyhoward@fooverizonbar.net> wrote:
[...]
> In the meantime, you'll be using commercial software.  Even the 
> 'best of breed' open source apps have a lot of bizarre little 
> problems.  Yes, commercial apps have problems too, but you don't 
> have to spend three days tracking through release notes, CVS, 
> wikis and what not figuring out what a 'valid bug report' looks 
> like, you can just pick up the phone and ask for help.
[...]
> (I spend a lot of time doing tech support for friends and 
> relatives.  *sigh*)

Have you considered building a business to provide tech support for
selected open source/free software?

I find it a bit silly to complain about lack of documentation for
something that is free. Stop wasting your life complaining and do
something to improve the situation. Write the documentation that you
wanted yesterday and sell it.

-Vesa Karvonen

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