And yet life still delivers the message: You get what you pay for!!!!!!! There are exceptions to that rule, but it still holds.
-----Original Message----- From: Frank Sweetser [mailto:f...@wpi.edu] Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 4:13 PM To: Steve Handy Cc: 'John Drescher'; bacula-users Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Never Mind - Given up on Bacula Steve Handy wrote: > Five years ago. I am sure Netbackup has progressed in those times. No one > likes to dish out money to expensive software, but typically sturdy > dependable products come at a price. Bacula is not a horrible product, but > it has bugs in it. Bugs any serious company will probably not. In my > opinion, it needs to be taken out of the open source community, closed > sourced, and then have some highly paid engineers stamp the bugs. Hah! Thanks, I've been studying for a certification exam all day and needed a good laugh. Seriously, though, if you think that a paycheck suddenly turns someone into a brilliant software engineer, then you've obviously never had to painstakingly read and explain RFCs to the developers who supposedly implemented them in the product you bought, had a trouble ticket filled with with carefully documented details and transcripts of reliably reproducible problems come back with a response that basically says "Oh, our software doesn't do that, so you're not having that problem!", or, when you finally convince them that it really is a real bug, have the vendor respond by simply retracting any claim to having that feature rather than fix it. And yes, those are all experiences I have personally had when dealing with "highly paid engineers." Of course, you don't have to simply take my word for it. I challenge anyone out there to read The Daily WTF at http://thedailywtf.com/ for a few weeks and then argue with a straight face that programmers who are motivated by paychecks magically make fewer mistakes than ones who care deeply about the projects they're working on. -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu | For every problem, there is a solution that WPI Senior Network Engineer | is simple, elegant, and wrong. - HL Mencken GPG fingerprint = 6174 1257 129E 0D21 D8D4 E8A3 8E39 29E3 E2E8 8CEC ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
