On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 10:04, Lamar Owen wrote:
2.) Paying Customer had intermittent lockups of the machine that were difficult to reproduce; 3.) Paying Customer got tired of Red Hat's 'WORKSFORME' bug resolution (that's the typical bugzilla tag when such an irreproducible problem occurs); 4.) Paying Customer quit paying and switched to Windows, which worked better for them (meaning, it didn't crash).
Now, just exactly what part of this is untrue or would require a Microsoft payoff?
Why is it news worth publishing that some piece of hardware somewhere crashes in a way that no one else can reproduce?
Sorry for the rant, but it is ridiculous to automatically dismiss a real-world problem.
Problems happen all the time. Why is this one newsworthy? If someone made such a big deal out of every Windows BSOD there wouldn't be room to publish anything else? The problem could almost certainly have been fixed as well by replacing the problematic hardware (even if the problem is in the Linux driver it will be fixed by using something different). Would it still be a big news item: "PC crashes,owner buys replacement!"?