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: Fine.  Are you developing the kernel?
That was not his allegation.

: If I were developing the kernel I'd get EXTREMELY PISSED OFF when
: people post *like this to newsgroups.  It's FREE, remember.  If
Why should you ? You would get pissed off if people report bugs ?
Then you are in the wrong newsgroup. And the developers need
bug reports - therefore the 1.1 series is publicy available for
finding bugs.
: you want guaranteed support, go and buy it from someone.
This is no matter of support ! This is helping the development.

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Based on the rate at which I go through problems on the software I'm
maintaining at work, I *entirely* agree with Mr. Barlow.  It is
absolutely and unambiguously *not possible* for one person to go
through 200+ daily problem reports and figure out if there's a real
problem behind each and every one of them.  Or, maybe my 25 years (as
of yesterday) in this business have rotted my brain and the young kids
of today can do it?  Naaah.
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: Fine.  Are you developing the kernel?

: If I were developing the kernel I'd get EXTREMELY PISSED OFF when
: people post *like this to newsgroups.

Really.  The guy is WAY out of line.  Even if you wanted to spend 12
hours a day going through stuff like that it would be hard to evaluate
more than one or two reports per day.

: It's FREE, remember.  If you want guaranteed support, go and buy it
: from someone.

Quite.

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Quote:>                                         If I were deve-
>loping the kernel, I'd probably make sure I went through
>all 200+ daily problem reports and figure out if there's
>a real problem behind each and every one of them....

If I were developing the kernel I'd get EXTREMELY PISSED OFF when
people post *like this to newsgroups.  It's FREE, remember.  If
you want guaranteed support, go and buy it from someone.

Followups to .misc in the absence of an advocacy group

Daniel

Quote:>>                                         If I were deve-
>>loping the kernel, I'd probably make sure I went through
>>all 200+ daily problem reports and figure out if there's
>>a real problem behind each and every one of them....
>Fine.  Are you developing the kernel?
>If I were developing the kernel I'd get EXTREMELY PISSED OFF when
>people post *like this to newsgroups.  It's FREE, remember.  If
>you want guaranteed support, go and buy it from someone.

People with the expertise and willingness to be free software developers are heroes,
IMHO, and deserve praise and support.  Linux would be just a Minix-like toy without
their amazing collective efforts.

] : If I were developing the kernel I'd get EXTREMELY PISSED OFF when
] : people post *like this to newsgroups.  It's FREE, remember.  If

] Why should you ? You would get pissed off if people report bugs ?
] Then you are in the wrong newsgroup. And the developers need
] bug reports - therefore the 1.1 series is publicy available for
] finding bugs.

No, he meant he gets pissed off at people posting complaints
alleging inadequate developer support for their *free*
software.  As do I.
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        My theory is that we might not catch the problem the first time it is
reported, but eventually problems do get noticed and fixed by the developers.

-Eric