Re: Emdebian
On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 10:47:28AM +0100, Marc Leeman wrote:
...
> If you are so hung up on the 'free', I will not stop you to go to a
> commercial vendor: I'm sure they will be very happy to shower you with
> sales talk, sell you an expensive and node locked product and hang you
> out to dry.
>
> If you send a support question to such a company, you might get lucky if
> you get a reply within weeks (not days) which vaguely scratches your
> problem.
Marc,
I feel disappointed that you seem to assume that commercial vendors
would engage in the behaviour you describe above by default. Maybe
someone, somewhere made mistakes (I have no personal proof of that),
but there are other vendors and other sales people, and even the people
and companies that you refer to might have made mistakes in the past in
your opinion, they deserve a second chance.
You must be aware that a number of "commercial" companies on this
list try to behave differently than what you describe and sell serious
technical support with no lock-in strategies, just billable by the hour
of actual development work or billable on fixed fee development and
support contracts.
Peter (a proud sales/marketing guy)
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