On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 07:17:27PM +0200, Alan DeKok wrote: > Jos Vos wrote: > > Although sometimes I would also like to have a newer version of > > something, this *does* pay back in overall stability and API/ABI > > compatibility throughout the OS's life time. > > It pays *them*. It doesn't pay *us*.
It pays back to the customers. They want a stable OS environment, not one where the software interfaces may change at every update. > They have a *great* business model: sell "long term support" for > packages, and push most of the questions onto the public forums such as > this list. The only way to solve is is to "forbid" long-term-support type Linux distros. And due to the facts that there is a need for that distros and that we live in free (software) world, this won't happen. Sorry... > Their customers should have HUGE warnings in all of the documentation, > saying "THIS PACKAGE IS YEARS OUT OF DATE." People running a 7-year supported OS *do* know (well, they should) that their software cann be up to 7-8 years old. -- -- Jos Vos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- X/OS Experts in Open Systems BV | Phone: +31 20 6938364 -- Amsterdam, The Netherlands | Fax: +31 20 6948204 - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html