FUD?

FUD?

Posted May 9, 2008 6:37 UTC (Fri) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091)
In reply to: How not to sell Linux by nim-nim
Parent article: How not to sell embedded Linux

Yes, you may not have liked it, but the question is legitimate. And I'm not sure it is FUD: the salesperson is not saying "your machines will go down in flames", but "when they fail, what will you do?".

The link you provide in the comments to your blog counters "I'm not going to use some unsupported hacker-ware on my system" with "Point them at http://www.caldera.com or http://www.linuxcare.com and point out that they can buy a service contract there". See, support is actually a valid thing to request in a business context. I use Debian on all my machines at home, but at work I would rather recommend Red Hat.

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