Fedora Core 3 Transferred to Fedora Legacy

[Andy Green]

jdow wrote:

> You're not listening, Rahul. That leads me to wonder just who constitutes
> the community that does the influences Fedora policies. I guess folks on
> this list are basically peons who are not part of the "community" or at
> least we're not as equal as other members.

If you look at what you're asking it boils down to asking some guys paid
by Redhat to spend time and effort they could spend elsewhere continuing
to give their high quality security coverage to what is now an older OS,
for free.  I have a remote server that is FC3, it came with FC3 and the
only other choice was Windows, so I am motivated to want security
coverage... but... before we huff and puff about 'community' we have to
realize we are demanding their work for free in such a case.  Redhat can
just as easily say, "look, we give you all this great stuff for free and
we want the 'community' in the form of the Legacy project to chip in now
so we can go on with new stuff".

> We're aware of the policy. We disagree with it. And we're agitating for
> a change. It appears to affect John directly. It won't affect me until
> 6 test 2. But I expect I'll get plenty annoyed at that time. And if the
> annoyance is big enough I can go for some honest autocracy and setup
> with FreeBSD.

Yeah well this is a valid choice... the 'Fedora deal' is that we get
high quality, up to date stuff, but we have to be on the dist-upgrade
treadmill.  If that deal doesn't suit your situation (I sure wish I had
CentOS on that server instead of Fedora, but it wasn't a choice) then do
consider to move.  CentOS makes most sense for many Fedora people in
situations where they can't be keeping up with the schedule, since it
basically is Fedora with wisdom teeth, but OSS is all about using
whatever is going to work for you, not for some particular supplier.

> (And maybe lose some of the GPL encumbrance problems.)

I didn't really understand what you meant by this.

-Andy
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