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Posted by: David F. Skoll (Tuesday 9 August 2005, 1:57 AM)
This has not been our experience at all. We love open-source products, because they're cheap, they work, and they do everything we need.
We don't want the frustration of dealing with Microsoft Technical Support [sic], talking to some monkey who has no clue what source code is, and probably hasn't been within 1,000 miles of the developers of the product he supposedly supports.
We greatly prefer dashing off an e-mail to the author of the software, usually getting back suggestions or even a patch within a few hours.
Support and quality is the main reason NOT to use Microsoft software.
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