🚀 go-pugleaf

abstine@visix.com writes:
>Again, the assumption is that we're too stupid to manage our own systems
>and need to have own hands held to the utmost.

	That's not it at all. The assumption is that you're stupid enough
to keep paying for bugfixes for something you bought that was originally
broken. That "handholding" is a profitable business.
	It bothers me a lot that vendors (any vendor, but since this is
comp.sys.dec) are willing to sell something with as many stupid, braindamaged,
un-fixed-since-N-releases-ago-but-have-been-QARred-so-often-there's-a-FAQ
bugs in it, but they want to charge an arm and a leg to fix it. I have
no problem with a vendor telling me that if I want ULTRIX4.3 I need to
pay for it, but they should *FIX* my older version for a reasonable
amount of time and they should eat the cost of the bad software, not
pass it on to the customer.

mjr.
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