FC2 Issues

[dalen]

akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:
> will be put in the Enterprise system. Tom got over heated but many of
> us who can't afford to buy 80 RedHat Enterprise systems must rely on
> Fedora. And there is no reason that known bugs can't be fixed.
> 
> We can't afford to licence 80 Windows XP systems either.
Aaron,
	I disagree with some of your arguments.  Just because you cannot afford 
RHEL does not mean that you MUST use FC.  There are many other free 
alternatives (Debian, Gentoo, *BSD, etc).  Also, there are reasons that 
bugs can't get fixed.  Sometimes there is no time or money or priority 
to fix a bug.  Sometimes there is not enough interest (rare hardware). 
Sometimes a fix breaks other things and you have to weigh the good of 
one vs good of many.  I'm not suggesting that any of these apply to this 
problem is particular.  Rather I am arguing that  statements containing 
MUST or NO REASON or "other all or nothing words" are generally false.

Dale