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Authored by: jesse on Tuesday, September 18 2012 @ 05:22 AM EDT
Have a huge staff of lawyers in each country of contract support for defense
against fraudulent claims.

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RedHat?
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, September 18 2012 @ 06:28 AM EDT
Isn't that pretty close to what RedHat does?

I know they still have the "not fit for any purpose" lines, but you
can go all the way up to "I have a direct line to some devs working
specifically on fixing *my* problem" support with them. For the
appropriate price, of course.

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  • RedHat? - Authored by: jonathon on Tuesday, September 18 2012 @ 10:43 AM EDT
    • RedHat? - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, September 19 2012 @ 04:21 AM EDT
format/reinstall
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, September 18 2012 @ 07:42 AM EDT
the end result would be a real solution to their problem/issue, and not the "wipe disk/reinstall windows" or "reset to factory settings", that is so beloved of the vendors I mention
When I was at Dell a manager told us that they had determined that the customer wanted the problem solved in 19 minutes, and they they preferred a format reinstall to a lengthy spyware clean up. I suspect that it had more to do with the contract terms than customer wishes. You may have them off the phone fast, but they then had to spend a lot of time putting back everything else they had installed and reloading their itunes. I also remember times when high priority calls were being ignored because we had missed the target and had to pay the penalty and were trying to avoid another on the low priority calls. For malware infections I still recommend a format reinstall since there is no way of knowing for sure what may have been tampered with.

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