On Monday 13 June 2005 14:58, you wrote:

To Mr. Shanahan: I do not use Suse 9.3, having elected to stay with Suse 9.2 Pro. I am not a programmer, which is why I get angry with those who arrogantly ASS/U/ME that people who try to give constructive criticism have no sense.

Your e-mail was far from constructive criticism and you're nothing more than a troll. I fault myself for taking your bait.

As for how I feel about the work done by others, for free, more power to them for their abilities and their making use of them. However, that does NOT put the company in the same bracket as they are SELLING their product and NOT doing it for free!!! :-)

You obviously have no idea what goes into an OS project. And BTW... DO NOT send me mail directly. And try NOT to top post. <sigh> -- Christopher Shanahan

Christopher Shanahan wrote:

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On Monday 13 June 2005 13:10, OldSarge wrote:

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To All: I do not know how most of you feel, but, instead of worrying about SuSe desupporting any version of same, maybe it is time to "desupport" any new versions , to include 9.3, until they get ALL the bugs out

There is no such thing as software absent any bugs.

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and people have time TO MAKE FULL USE OF WHAT VERSION THEY HAVE!!!!! :-)

There is nothing to prevent you from using your software for as long as you would like. That is one of the bast parts of FOSS. When Novell/SUSE decides to stop officially supporting a specific version of their software _YOU_ have the option to upgrade and/or to continue to use _YOUR_ software while supporting it yourself. In other words, patch vulnerabilities yourself.

As for the way I feel... Well, I respect the work of others, especially those that do not get paid for their imagination and hard work. And I would never disrespect them by sending such a pathetic e-mail to a public list -- unless of course, I've contributed better code to a project and that code was ignored by the respective developer. Have you submitted better code to fix any of the bugs for which you are complaining???

Feel free to identify a specific bug in SUSE 9.3 and post the patch that you've created to fix that bug.

-- Christopher Shanahan