reviving Fedora Legacy
Ralf Corsepius
rc040203 at freenet.de
Tue Oct 14 03:46:46 UTC 2008
On Mon, 2008-10-13 at 21:17 -0400, Chuck Anderson wrote:
> 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?
Exactly! Wasn't this the original idea behind Fedora?
Ralf
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