Re: Microsoft Development Woes

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On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 11:54:46AM -0400, Curtis Johnstone wrote:
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> I stumbled across this e-mail dialog I had with a Microsoft developer last
> year. It epitomizes my experience with Microsoft when I've hit serious
> trouble developing new Microsoft technology that they push. It is worth a
> read, enjoy.
:
> the answer, but VB still blows chunks when I do an ADS Provider ADO call (it
> GPF's on the execute method).

LOL! Fun stuff...

I hate to be predictable and do the open source cheerleader thing,
but there have been a bunch of times in the past few years where
we came up against a problem with Linux or Apache or something
(usually due to us doing strange things with them), emailed the
developers and got advice or a code patch back within 15-20
minutes. I'll have to research and write up the details sometime.

It really is amazing to be able to get immediate, quality support
from the core developers of large software projects like that.

It doesn't always work out that way, sometimes you have to wait a
few days or poke around in newsgroup archives on your own, but you
always know you can eventually solve whatever problem you have.

--
Gerald Oskoboiny <[email protected]>
http://impressive.net/people/gerald/

Re: Microsoft Development Woes

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On Fri, Jun 30, 2000, Gerald Oskoboiny wrote:
> It really is amazing to be able to get immediate, quality support
> from the core developers of large software projects like that.

That's true. On the other hand, having a support contract for something
sure helps some times.

I remember having a problems with multiple interfaces on a Solaris box,
and I bugged the technical until they solved the problem since 3Com had
a contract with them, and they couldn't just ignore me. :-)

But having said that, I don't use any non-DFSG[1] free software anymore,
except mpg123 and Netscape to browse a few pages a day, because I enjoy
being able to use quality software on my computer without having to pay
and being able to screw around with the source.

 1. http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines

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