POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Obsolete technology : Re: Obsolete technology Server Time
6 Sep 2024 03:16:38 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Obsolete technology  
From: nemesis
Date: 25 Apr 2009 16:03:45
Message: <49f36ca1@news.povray.org>
Tor Olav Kristensen wrote:
> Warp wrote:
>> Tor Olav Kristensen <tor### [at] toberemovedgmailcom> wrote:
>>> Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>>>> Tor Olav Kristensen wrote:
>>> ...
>>>>>   dd if=/dev/sda of=/mnt/sdb1/WinNT_backup.img
>>> ...
>>>> ...or I could use Norton Ghost (which we have a commercial license 
>>>> for). 
>>
>>> Hmmm... Why do companies want to use money on such programs ?
>>
>>   If the program breaks, they have someone to call to. No such luck with
>> free software.
> 
> So you are saying that their chances of having the problem fixed in time 
> is better if they have paid money for the program ?

Sure.  If Norton Ghost dies they can spend hours on the phone or in 
email exchanges to both act all bossy customer and demand a new copy or 
a fix, rather than spending a few minutes getting Knoppix to boot and 
then typing those 4 lines.


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