On Thu, 10 May 2007 04:05:37 +0200 (CEST)
"Carlos E. R."
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The Wednesday 2007-05-09 at 15:57 +0200, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote:
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Sometimes software business is really odd. Nobody would ever throw away his car only because it is 5 years old but still running ok, even if the manufacturer tells him to because there is a brand new one available with lots of cool new features. Why do you even try to argue like this for software?
It happens also with cars and anything else. There is a moment when a car is no longer manufactured, but they still make spares. Then even spares are no longer made, then the spares in storage are spent, then the last users have to get used spares from the dumps, and finally only collectors can maintain those cars by making those spares by hand themselves.
Obviously, when the manufacturer stop making the car, the dealers have to stop selling it - even if they are good cars and they work - for instance, the "beetle" or the "600".
Same here with the PHP4. The developers (the car manufacturers) will stop maintaining it by year end; thus suse (the car dealer) has to stop providing it because they can't get it upstream (the car manufacturers). If you want to maintain it, you can do as the car collectors: do your own maintenance, or pay a special garage to maintain it for you (ie, pay your own developers). It's open source, after all...
I love your talking about this example, especially where you elaborated about the _owners_ of the already sold cars. Sorry, but you missed the topic (again). I am talking about people who already own and use the car happily, to stay in the picture. I cannot believe it is that hard to understand why it makes no sense to drop working stuff ... -- Regards, Stephan von Krawczynski --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org