reviving Fedora Legacy

[Chuck Anderson]

On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 08:51:13PM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
> 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.

And why shouldn't the Fedora project provide a place for the consumers 
who fixed things themselves to share with those who can't fix things?