Why pay for pain?

In a recent newsgroup post, Brian White opined (with regard to Open Server 6):

It's been long run, and good the whole time, and I hate to
have to start living in the chaos with everyone else, but if
I do have to suffer unexpected and unexplained problems and
breaks with backwards compatibility, and systems that have
changed recently so that I no longer have very in depth
knowledge of them, well then I might as well at least not pay
thousands of dollars per box for the privilege.
 

Exactly. As I have said before, no matter how good OSR6 is, it's far too late. This is the OS SCO needed to introduce in 1997 or even earlier, when they still had customers and resellers hanging in there. Most of the horses are long gone from the barn, and the only ones left are the ones that prefer the dependability of a steady diet to foraging elsewhere. But now SCO's going to change the feed mix, and rather drastically. Across the river is all kinds of free food, albeit each with its own set of problems, but hey - FREE. Who wants to pay for pain? That is, if your are going to have pain no matter what, it sure as hell seems stupid to pay for it.

And that's Brian's point. Read the rest, it's worth the click.

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