Re: EMC - a practical implementation?

[Herman Bruyninckx <Herman.Bruyninckx-at-mech.kuleuven.ac.be>]

On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Stephen B. Patterson wrote:

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> My point is that my time is valuable and I refuse to do testing and
> debugging of ANY software for free.
If you're using Windows and other MS products, you've been doing this all
the time already. _and_ you paid for this defective software. Many times.
How many times did your computers crash. How many efforts and costs did you
put in anti virus programs or in cleaning up their devastating results?
How many times did you loose data in Word? How many hours did you or your
sys admin spend in cleaning up registry files? Etc. I'm working in a mixed
Windows/Unix/Linux environment, and my experience is that the time I spend
in trying out Open Software, and giving feedback to the developers is not
much more than what my MS-using colleagues loose in defective and
inefficient bloatware from Redmond... The average difference between the
time a Word using student needs to write his thesis is three months with
respect to his colleague who uses Latex. And the effort to learn Latex
i.s.o. Word is comparable to the effort you need to master EMC...

While you are _completely_ in the hands of MS when using their soft, you
can at least solve those problems that affect you most in EMC and other
Open Source soft. Try looking at it from this side :-)

And please, don't answer my email: you've lost too much of your precious
professional time already politely answering the previous posts :-)

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Dept. Mechanical Eng., Div. PMA, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium