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There are many reasons that people like open-source, but one of the big ones is that if you're having this problem with it, that just means that you're lazy.


Thats kinda harsh, but sadly the mentality of many of the small time OSS developers out there. They will go on about never having time to document their own work, then turn around and call someone lazy for not knowing C well enough to go look at the source code to find the exact problem. That type of problem solving might work well in a lab environment with one or two machines, but in a typical IT managers day, they don't have time to spend hours pouring over source code and header files to find one problem, when they are likely to also be dealing with 10 other things.

That is why I don't mind, and in fact encourage big companies to get into Linux more. HP for example has some very knowledgeable people on a Linux specific support team. If someone from say the NASDAQ calls in because one of their Linux boxes throws up an arcane error, that team will help them solve it, instead of telling them to go to Google.com.

Computer technology is a very big field, and not every person involved in it can be expected to know every little detail about everything. The same can be said for many other jobs as well.