Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cwjcc!gatech!ncsuvx!ece-csc!ncrcae!ncr-sd!serene!rfarris From: rfarris@serene.CTS.COM (Rick Farris) Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport Subject: Support versus Bug Fixes Summary: Dmitri was pretty reasonable Message-ID: <231@serene.CTS.COM> Date: 23 Sep 88 17:33:24 GMT References: <913@cygnet.CYGNETSYSTEMS> <425@l5comp.UUCP> <270@belltec.UUCP> <433@l5comp.UUCP> <8229@alice.UUCP> <14632@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Reply-To: rfarris@serene.cts.com (Rick Farris) Organization: Serenity BBS, Del Mar, Ca. Lines: 21 Actually, I thought Dimitri's response was pretty reasonable. He's been flamed a lot by people that say that "If the manuals say it should do this then it's Bell Tech's responsibility to ensure that they do." I'm not sure that's so. As long as Bell Tech spells out clearly that what you are buying is strictly the release as it comes from IAM, with no changes, and all they are doing is acting as the middle man, I think they are providing a valuable service. I mean how many times does Bell have to tell you "If you want support, buy Xenix?" I think that if you listen to them and then buy the IAM product anyway, well, caveat emptor. I do have a little bit of problem with the Bell Tech $145 Unix ads, though. And since I proved how reasonable I am in the last three paragraphs, maybe you should reconsider them, Dimitri. :-) _______________________________ Rick Farris | rfarris@serene.cts.com | Voice (619) 259-6793 POB M | ...!uunet!serene!rfarris | BBS 259-7757 Del Mar, CA 92014 |_______________________________| serene.UUCP 259-3704