| Fair warning this is a little harsh but true. There are a couple of things in this thread which I agree with and some I dont. For the spacewalk development team: On the client and server side there is a way to query the API version. It would be better if the client specified the API version in each message and the server had backward compatibility for at least 1 version. The reverse backward compatibility would also be nice and if both were done it would resolve a lot (if not all) of the upgrade issues with spacewalk. For the original person who started this chain: Question: Why does SuSE manager exist? Disclaimer: I do not now nor have I ever worked for Red Hat or SuSE. My answer is based on 19+ years making al living on supporting and writing free speech software, in vry industry from municipal school systems, several stock exchanges, broadcast media, and web. Comment: Stop being a troll. Answer: Industry requirements, government regulations and infosec standards, that's why!!! Some history Spacewalk predates SUSE Manager! Actual reasons why SuSE manage exists. Reasons: 1) There are a lot of industry standards, government regulations, and even international treaties which require for many industries that require you have a support contract unless you can prove you have a sufficient in number and quality development and quality assurance team to prove you are making a "best effort" to ensure all relivant security patches are being installed in a "timely manner". what that means is if your buissness requiers you to comply with one of these standards or regulations, unless your company is running hundreds of thousands of servers economically it doesn't make much sense to not pay for support; because the team required to meet the expectation of those standards is way too cost prohibitive. 2) Why shouldn't developers of GPL software be payed for their efforts. Even RMS has pointed this out repeatedly, and if you don't think that's true read the GNU manifesto some time. The GNU manifesto points out several business models on how to make money by producing free speach software. In this case of Spacewalk currently both SUSE and Red Hat are persisly following one of the models layed out in the GNU manifesto.
Moving forward it would be nice if spacewalk team put backwards compatibility for the function call they changed in rhnlib...
On 2015-07-29 20:33, Bosch, Fabian (BITBW) wrote:
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