reviving Fedora Legacy

[Josh Boyer]

On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 07:44:17PM -0500, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> Bill Nottingham wrote:
>> To put it a different way - would you buy a car whose extended warranty
>> won't tell you what it covers, or for how long, and tells you it's subject
>> to change *AT ANY TIME*? If so, I think I've got some cars to sell you.
>
> Have you ever bought a used car?
>
> People drive cars not under warranty because they know that, if  
> something goes wrong, they can either fix it themselves (for those who  
> are hobby mechanics) or pay someone to fix it. The same goes for a  
> distro; if you need an update and there is no support, you can always  
> build it yourself or pay someone to build it for you (which is, after  
> all, sort of the point of Free Software).

Thank you for providing the analogy that proves the Fedora project
(the car dealership here) does not need to provide an LTS because the
consumers (the Fedora users) can fix things themselves.

josh