JargonFile/entries/support.txt
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support
n. After-sale handholding; something many software vendors promise but few deliver. To hackers, most support people are useless because by the time a hacker calls support he or she will usually know the software and the relevant manuals better than the support people (sadly, this is not a joke or exaggeration). A hacker's idea of support is a tete--tete with the software's designer.