RH rips again Was: extend EOL for Red Hat Linux 9?

[admin at kclinux.net]

FYI - Windows 98 has already passed it's EOL.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/lifecycle/default.mspx

There is no more support or fixes for Windows 98 unless it just happens 
to work when they made the patch for Windows ME or Windows 2000.  (Like 
the patches over the past few days.)

There's already vulnerabilities in Windows 98 that Microsoft has 
announced that they will not fix.


Preston Crawford wrote:

>Yes and no. Just keep this in mind. Microsoft, the "Great Satan" in the
>eyes of many in the Linux community, is STILL supporting Windows 98 even
>though (A) it's a piece of junk and (B) it's AT LEAST 6 years old if not
>older. So this "sticker shock" you're seeing is that there's a standard
>out there. And that standard is that when you pay for software (which
>RH9 users did if they bought the boxed set or paid for RHN) you get
>support for at least more than a year. In the case of Windows 98 6+. I'm
>not saying I agree that that's reasonable; especially when you consider
>that Red Hat is a much smaller operation than Microsoft (at least in
>terms of funds). I'm just saying that people are used to buying software
>off the shelf and getting more support than they received with RH9. RH9
>was a very unusual case. They released it and almost as soon as they
>released it it was EOLed. That's not good for PR. That doesn't make the
>company look good. 
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