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Article #261Re: Consumer Reports testing confirms that the Apple "Bumpers" for the iPhone 4 solves its antenna problem
From: John Navas
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 19:37
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 19:37
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On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 10:54:24 -0700, in <4c45e2ca$0$22134$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net>, SMS <scharf.steven@geemail.com> wrote: >On 20/07/10 10:41 AM, DevilsPGD wrote: > ><snip> > >> As a mass-market desktop OS, it's got somewhere under 1% market >> penetration. > >I worked at a place where probably 50% of the employees used Linux as >their desktop OS. Of course Linus worked their too, as did about 50 >other Linux gurus. Support was not a problem except no one wanted to >write hardware drivers for devices not supported by the distribution. > >I had to deal a great deal with Microsoft, and we had a full time >employee located on the Microsoft campus. A very pleasurable company to >work with, always willing to help out, and not the evil empire that some >people make them out to be. We found OS issues that had never come up in >their own testing, and they were always willing to issue fixes and then >roll them into the next service pack. If true, you were very lucky and unusual, or that was very long ago -- Microsoft responsiveness steadily declined over the first half of the last decade, in part because so many good people left. >If an issue with Linux came up, it >was more work because it had to be fixed in every Linux distribution. Then you only had yourselves to blame -- well-managed IT organizations standardize on a single disto, leaving those on other distos to fend for themselves. -- John "Assumption is the mother of all screw ups." [Wethern๏ฟฝs Law of Suspended Judgement]
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