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Re:Massive RedHat Perl performance issue by orib on Monday August 25, 2008 @02:27PM (#286247)
Sure, but with open source vendors, you can fix it yourself if it's broken, and it's important enough. That's the essential difference.

All vendors suck to different degrees. Nothing ever works perfectly. Open source gives you the ability to do something if the suckiness affects you, though. With closed source, you're stuck until the vendor gets around to your bug. With larger vendors, this may take forever.

Re:Massive RedHat Perl performance issue by jrsims on Monday August 25, 2008 @04:17PM (#286373)
Also, you have transparency in what you are running, which is important from a rights perspective.
Re:Massive RedHat Perl performance issue by gaius on Tuesday August 26, 2008 @09:25AM (#287034)
Yes but if you start from the assumption "I'll fix it myself" it leads you very quickly to "WTF am I paying Redhat for exactly?"