FC3rc5
Res
res at ausics.net
Sat Oct 30 00:02:00 UTC 2004
I think a few people here are reading too depply into his post, sure he
shouldnt use test versions but I read that as a upgrade on versions, or
maybe I used common sense in this approach which some people around here
forbid.
Go get a coffee
On Fri, 29 Oct 2004, Paul Iadonisi wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 18:37, Kim Lux wrote:
>> To me, "support" means that when I ask for advice and tell someone that
>> my installation was an upgrade they don't laugh at me and tell me to
>> uninstall and reinstall fresh. That is a Windows concept, not the sort
>> of attitude we can have with servers and workstation machines.
>
> Completely unfair comparison. Since when has *any* OS vendor
> supported upgrades from *test* release to official releases? Please
> name them, and provide pointers to some statistics on how well it worked
> in practice.
> Microsoft is guilty of a lot, but if you are saying that Windows betas
> or release candidates would not allow upgrades to official releases is
> something they should be blamed for, then I have to wonder how much
> exposure you've had to operating system development. In other words,
> just because you had to do something undesirable in the Windows world,
> doesn't mean it's a Windows specific occurrence. In this particular
> case, it's just the nature of operating system development, FLOSS or
> proprietary.
>
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Regards,
Res
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