Rolling release model philosophy (was Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule (was Re: f18: how to install into a LVM partitions (or RAID)))

[drago01]

On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 6:55 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2012-11-04 at 12:18 -0500, Simo Sorce wrote:
>> On Sat, 2012-11-03 at 00:36 +0100, Michał Piotrowski wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > 2012/11/3 Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com>:
>> > > Note
>> > > that neither Red Hat nor Microsoft actually support major version
>> > > upgrades for their operating systems
>>
>> Adam, this is plainly untrue for Microsoft, they always supported
>> upgrading to the next version.
>
> As someone already pointed out, 'support' is an overloaded term. They
> 'support' upgrades the same way we 'support' upgrades - they provide an
> upgrade mechanism for you to hang yourself with. As was clarified later,
> the point is that they don't guarantee it will work,

[citation needed]

I can't believe that they were selling something "windows X upgrade"
without supporting it at all.
That's like selling a car and telling the customer "it might not move
at all in that case you are on your own sorry".