fedora mission (was Re: systemd and changes)

[Alex Hudson]

On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 19:51 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> We probably need to attack this trend more aggressively, like putting 
> expiration dates into the installer after which it'll just refuse to 
> install

Honestly, that's just a great way to turn more people off.

There are plenty of valid reasons to run old software, security updates
or no - testing for compatibility being one obvious one (either with the
O/S itself, or versions of software the O/S shipped with - when did
Fedora last ship Firefox 2, for example?)

Putting up a message saying "this is no longer supported" - fine.
Stopping people / making it impossible? That's not "Freedom".

Cheers,

Alex.


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