-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2007-05-11 at 12:00 +0200, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote:
On Thu, 10 May 2007 04:05:37 +0200 (CEST) "Carlos E. R." <> wrote:
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 ...
Ok, the analogy holds. I were the happy owner of a still working Seat 600 car - this car signified the car revolution in Spain, it is like talking of the W. Beetle or the Ford T here - I'd have to maintain it myself. It went many years ago out of production, even if customers wanted it a lot. Even now people want it, and I can see it on the streets: seldom, but some of them. I'd have problems finding spares; I'd have problems finding "leaded" gas; I'd have problems passing the ITV, the technical yearly inspection mandatory for cars over 10 years: test the brakes in the roller bed and the car is ejected out due to its low weight (and the test calls for braking from 100 Km/h when this car doesn't reach that tremendous speed). I'd have problems even with parking, because the car is small and the fender is low, so other cars would scratch my antique paint, or worse. And no cute features like air conditioning, of course. The analogy holds. You want to keep using a "relic", fine: but you will have to do it yourself. However, as you are talking of a webserver with clients, you should be using the SLES version with a five year cycle, and you would not have this problem, or not all of it. It's like joining an Antique Automobile Club with Repair Shop included. ;-) - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFGRF+CtTMYHG2NR9URAsPmAKCRpO3dSryU0RGZreTDmbfqlVuaAQCfesrS QaOtwRAO+0gYzI9UIkTIq7g= =l0ix -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org