From: "Adam Flinton" 


"Antti Kurenniemi"  wrote in
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> "Adam Flinton"  wrote in message
> news:3de78e59{at}w3.nls.net...
> > > I have to ask, would you like an important part of your system to
> > > be fixed "by anybody"? I don't see that as an
absolute positive
thing...
> > >
> > Then one has to ask ...do you know who built all the s/w you're
> > running/using now? I have no idea who wrote the IDE subsystem
> > for Win2K
>
> Microsoft.
>

But who? Names please

>
> > or the views code for Oracle
>
> Oracle.
>

But who? Names please.

The reason I say that is there is a fairly large chunk of code in linux now
which is written by these sort of people. E.g:

XFS - SGI
JFS/EVMS & a fair few others - IBM

There are other examples from such comps as HP.

>
> > & thus they are "anybody".
>
> Not in my books. I know that for MS products, MS will provide the fix (and
> let's not go to the point of *if* they provide the fix or *when* ), and
> that's good enough for me.
>

But so longas you get the problem fixed where is the problem?

Adam

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