Funniest thing I've heard today and it's only 9 AM

[Jarod Wilson]

On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 10:07 -0400, Alex Hewitt wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 09:40 -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> > On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 09:02 -0400, kenta wrote:
> > > I just had to share this, one of the consulants here just sent an
> > > e-mail in which he said:
> > >  
> > > "Postfix is open source. That's not a good thing for any product to
> > > support across different Linux flavors. 
> > > That's a dark road to follow. "
> > >  
> > > (This is in reference to not having official support for our milter on
> > > Postfix vs. Sendmail)
> > >  
> > > I am *really* hoping he's joking, but for some reason I think not.
> > > Must... restrain... FIST OF DEATH. 
> > 
> > Wow, that guy's clueless on so many levels, you'd certainly hope he's
> > joking... If not, he ain't consulting for *me* anymore...
> > 
> > 
> 
> The problem with people like the one cited is that they "know what they
> know". They don't have a real understanding of FOSS and live in a
> proprietary world.

This goes beyond just a lack of understanding of FOSS to simple lack of
a clue, since it seems he's claiming Postfix is bad because its
open-source, while Sendmail is good because it isn't, when of course
almost anyone with a clue knows that Sendmail is also open-source. Of
course, there's this company behind Sendmail who has some
productization, but still... I suppose in his sheltered world, Sendmail
rationally must not be open-source, since there's a company behind it
making money... But, um, yeah.

Though to be honest, I'm still amazed how many people I talk to and
mention who I work for (Red Hat), and they have no clue what I'm talking
about -- they don't know the company name or what Linux is. So perhaps
the world in general isn't as educated as I'd like to believe it
is... :)


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Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com