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Posted by Stan McCann on 01/02/06 23:05
Andrew DeFaria <Andrew@DeFaria.com> wrote in
news:43b965fb$0$58086$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net:
> Chung Leong wrote:
>
>> Andrew DeFaria wrote:
>> Okay, so people are supposed to make a important business decision
>> based on some messages they read on a newsgroup?
>
> Yes! It's done all the time. In fact I do it all the time!
I have for years. Even with big name software. Have you ever tried to
get support from Novell or Microsoft? Much easier to use Google which
will often lead to the answer from *a newsgroup.* As far as decisions
as to what to use, get into the proper newsgroups before making the
decision, read and learn. It's not too difficult after reading a while
to detect who knows things and who the bozos are.
Then make some informed decisions.
>> Jesus. The big issue is not whether it actually works but who's
>> responsible when it doesn't.
>
> Ah no, not at all. If the software works then nobody needs to worry
> about being responsible when it doesn't because it does. This is
> simple logic. Are you sure you're a real programmer?
If it (whatever it is) doesn't work, blame Bill[1], the ultimate evil
in the world[2]. ;)
>> If I'm pushing a setup that's described as experimental and
>> something goes wrong, who's responsible? Me.
>
> Then test it. Or spending thousands or millions of dollars on
> inferior off the shelf software that - guess what? - has bugs too.
> Some of this off the shelf software with their support contracts and
> all are based off of Open Source stuff anyway (e.g. IBM/Rational's
> web server software, called RWP, is basically Apache).
Test servers work wonders.
>
>> Seriously, how long does this "experiment" have to last?
The "web" is still an experiment. Better not use it, it's full of
bugs.
[1] Bill Gates is even responsible for Andrew's top posting. Outlook
brought that style on.
[2] In jest of course. Microsoft has done a lot of things incorrectly,
but they have also done some pretty decent stuff.
--
Stan McCann "Uncle Pirate" http://stanmccann.us/pirate.html
Webmaster/Computer Center Manager, NMSU at Alamogordo
http://alamo.nmsu.edu/ There are 10 kinds of people.
Those that understand binary and those that don't.
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