GNU and the issue of support

[Wm E. Davidsen Jr]

In article <9491 at ubc-cs.UUCP> rlin at cs.ubc.ca (Robert Lin) writes:
| Is it really true, that a free product like GNU would have no support?
| No customer hand-holding? 

  Well, if you have $100k/year for support, Cygnus will support most of
the GNU stuff. The company was formed by Michael Tieman, John Gilmore,
and (I'm sorry, brian offline tonight).

  For the average person, well... you have the source, right?
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