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