Zaire still won't connect

[Net Llama!]

On 07/12/03 20:46, Yu Meng Chong wrote:
> I will admit that Open Source is not as user-friendly as more commercial 
> efforts, and lately, in the rush to "catch-up", I find that more and 
> more Open Source software that is released is buggy or requires 
> considerable effort to get it to work as advertised (which is why I'm 
> actually considering downgrading from Red Hat 9 to TurboLinux 8, and 
> from KDE3 to xfce). I think that, for people living in more prosperous 

IMO, going from KDE to any other window manager is an upgrade, especially 
if its to XFCE4.

> Which is not to say that your concerns are not valid. If I have an 
> opportunity to work in the US, and can make enough to actually buy a 
> Palm (and a house and a car and plan for my retirement), I would 
> probably say goodbye to Open Source as well. If I can get vendors to 
> respond to my problems in a quick and timely manner, I would gladly pay 
> money for commercial software.

You're ignoring the fact that a rapidly growing number of companies are 
selling support for OSS.

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