Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264061AbTFWPV5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jun 2003 11:21:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264095AbTFWPV4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jun 2003 11:21:56 -0400 Received: from mail2.sonytel.be ([195.0.45.172]:60604 "EHLO witte.sonytel.be") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264061AbTFWPVz (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jun 2003 11:21:55 -0400 Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 17:34:37 +0200 (MEST) From: Geert Uytterhoeven To: Larry McVoy cc: Linux Kernel Development , David Woodhouse , Stephan von Krawczynski , Jeff Garzik , lawrence@the-penguin.otak.com Subject: Re: [OT] Re: Troll Tech [was Re: Sco vs. IBM] In-Reply-To: <20030623135828.GD6715@work.bitmover.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1073 Lines: 27 On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Larry McVoy wrote: > > ...and then, there are those who do installations of complex software. > > Either some admin who's already there can do the setup (and will need a > > week to get it right), or you can do that for him, charging some $$$. > > Or you can fix your software so it just works. If you don't, you are > leaving the door open for someone else to demonstrate how their software > has a lower cost of ownership than yours. IC, that's why everybody is replacing sendmail by exchange ;-) Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/