I think we have gotten the message across to Richard. Folks that NEED a place to call for everything, and with less patience, and more money than time, NEED to have a vendor they can pay to fix things.
Much of the economy in the USA (and I assume to some extent elsewhere) is based on this perceived need. There is nothing wrong with Richards requests, other than a perceived feeling that there is an obligation to 'make it right on his terms'. If Richard or others need that, there are folks that are willing to sell EMC2 and other FOSS products to him with a service contract so they will be their first line of defense. I am guessing we have some of those vendors on this list. Nothing wrong with that either. I used to work for a company that sold FOSS systems and support. They were basically a white box vendor, that added their service, and charged the customer for the privilege of the customer not having to do it themselves. One problem we did have was our customers figured out the software was FOSS, so they went to the lists to get support. Again, nothing wrong there. But then they expected us to 'fix' what they had done for 'free' because it was FOSS. ... At time it is hard to say no to customers, but without $$ we had to. ... Enough war stories, lets go back to fixing issues and let us know of your successes! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/blackberry _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
