haha so you are saying a person who bought 7.0 in January 01 doesn't have support in July 01 anymore? Damn this Linux development really is a race with time...=)
From: Ben Rosenberg
To: SLE Subject: Re: [SLE] Office 97 Users Lose Free Support Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 09:47:32 -0700 Actually, I agree with this. It's old. 4 years old. If you notice SuSE's support supports the current version and one version back..so for example come June 15th..it will support 7.1 and 7.2 .. and at that time 7.0 will fall by the wayside. It's very hard to support software that has out lived it's lifecycle. Some may not agree with this..but then again..I don't care. ;)
Current + 1 version back is a pretty good policy. It would be nightmare to support things such as XFree86 3.3.3.1 and try to get a new video card to work..the list goes on.
I am also kinda sick to my stomach that I don't disagree with this policy.
* Curtis Rey (crrey@home.com) [010604 09:33]: ->That's right Steve and Bill - piss off everyone! ->READ ALL ABOUT IT: ->http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,51565,00.asp -> ->Cheers. Curtis :)
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