On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 09:42 -0300, Horst H. von Brand wrote:
Patrice Dumas <pertusus(a)free.fr> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 01:30:21PM +0200, Emmanuel Seyman wrote:
> > * Patrice Dumas [13/10/2008 13:23] :
> > >
> > > Why are you telling about half baked updates? Who will do that? Fedora
> >
> > They're half-baked in the sense that there's less commitement
> > post-EOL than pre-EOL.
> But post-EOL there is currently no commitment and there won't be any
> promise on it. Some is better than not at all.
"Might someday get looked at and fixed, if somebody cares" is definitely
much worse than "No more fixes, do upgrade".
Some users will do so, but others will react as Wikipedia did: Quit
using Fedora and switch to a different distro or OS.
Hell, folks, I have seen people switching to MinGW, because of this.
They told me, "MinGW" better suites their needs because it offers
support for "this weird GNU-stuff" on "the industry-standard OS".