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Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC Basics

2011-03-17 14:50:56
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC Basics
From: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
To: backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 13:49:10 -0500
On 3/17/2011 1:05 PM, Joe Konecny wrote:
>
> 2. In my experience I have found that quite a few proprietary products
> work better than the open source equivalent.  Don't get me wrong... I
> love open source and use quite a bit of it.  Firefox, Thunderbird,
> Openoffice, Hylafax, Linux, FreeBSD, Samba, Backuppc... the list goes
> on...  and all in a corporate setting.  But quite a few of these cause
> me problems and headaches compatibility wise that if I wasn't such an
> open source zealot I would eagerly move to a closed source program.

When 2 things have compatibility problems, it doesn't seem fair to blame 
just one of them, especially the one that is closed source, doesn't 
follow any standards, and almost certainly introduces undocumented 
changes just to be anti-competitive.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com



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