On 2017-08-27, Mario Castelán Castro <marioxcc...@yandex.com> wrote: > On 26/08/17 20:36, Liam O'Toole wrote: >> On 2017-08-25, Borden Rhodes <j...@bordenrhodes.com> wrote: >>> I encourage everyone to check out "How to Irritate People salesmen" on= > >>> your favourite community video streaming site. That's how I've found >>> FOSS support: "Best software in the world. No problems at all. But if >>> you find a problem, file a bug and we'll fix it." "Well I have filed a= > >>> bug, and you haven't fixed it." "Nope, no problems with this software >>> at all..." >>=20 >> And you have never encountered that attitude with proprietary software >> vendors? Ever? >>=20 >> The difference with FLOSS is that you can fix any problems yourself. Or= > >> persuade or pay someone else to do it for you. The choice is yours. > > There are plenty of sites where asking stupid question about free > software programs is the norm, and you are not allowed to admonish users > for not knowing what they must already know (very often it has a section > in the manual about it). The most popular one is probably stackexchange. > > For example, I mean questions like: =E2=80=9CI am the manager of a nuclea= > r power > plant. The engineers are telling me that we are having a loss of coolant > and core meltdown, what does that mean? Is it dangerous?=E2=80=9D > > If you want to go spoonfeed, then go to one of those sites.
Thanks for the suggestion. I hope you won't be offended as I blithely ignore it. -- Liam
