EOL planning

[Mike McCarty]

seth vidal wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 11:46 -0500, Lawrence 'The Dreamer' Chen wrote:
> 
>>Well, my previous employer probably wants RH7.3 to go on forever now.
>>
>>I had made all the important servers RH7.3 -- 2 NIS servers, NFS server and CVS
>>server.  The NIS servers were 7.2, but I upgraded them to 7.3 shortly after
>>being informed that I would be laid off soon.  Now they have nobody taking care
>>of the machines, just automatic updates through yum.  Hopefully, they'll last
>>forever.
>>
>>The company does have real RHELs running on its development servers, but kind
>>of goes with trying to develop and sell enterprise software for Linux.
>>
>>Though one of my key home servers is also RH7.3, and have no desire to upgrade
>>it.
>>
>>My last day was December 23rd....what a gift that was....
>>
>>Lawrence, unemployed software engineer....
> 
> 
> At the risk of being too caustic for this list:
> 
> Would you be willing to tell us who your employer was so we can make
> sure to never do business with them?

[snip]

Are you trying to guarantee that others get laid off as well?

I also sympathise, being a laid-off software engineer myself,
but I don't think this is the solution.

Mike
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