REVIEW/RFC: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Kevin/Updates_Policy_Draft

[Chuck Anderson]

On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 02:47:23PM -0400, Orcan Ogetbil wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 1:50 PM, Jesse Keating wrote:
> > On 10/1/10 10:41 AM, Chuck Anderson wrote:
> >> How would you like it if you drove into work, parked your car, and
> >> when you went out to your car at the end of the day to commute home
> >> you found that the left-hand-drive changed to a right-hand-drive?  Or
> >> the fuel fill moved to the other side?  Or the transmission shift
> >> pattern changed?
> >
> > Or the car was moved to a different parking spot, the roads were changed
> > on the way home, and your garage was re-organized so that you have to
> > park somewhere differently within it.
> >
> 
> Such things happen in life.
> 
> - Roads get closed and you need to take an alternate path.
> - My friend's transmission broke once, he couldn't shift to 2. He had
> to shift from 1 to 3 all the time, but this wasn't too hard to learn.
> - My wife takes my car. But I need a car urgent. I borrowed my
> friend's car and the fuel fill is on the different side with respect
> to my car. But I learned it.
> 
> 
> Learning such stuff does not bother me in my daily workflow. But I
> guess I am alone here. Sad :(

Yes, but those are exceptional cases.  The comparison with computers 
would be if your hard drive died and you needed to borrow your 
friend's computer which might run a different operating system or 
version.  You try to avoid those cases normally.  Most people don't 
choose a car that might morph unexpectedly out from under them as a 
part of its normal, expected routine.