Andy Green wrote:
jdow wrote:
You're not listening, Rahul. That leads me to wonder just who constitutes the community that does the influences Fedora policies. I guess folks on this list are basically peons who are not part of the "community" or at least we're not as equal as other members.
If you look at what you're asking it boils down to asking some guys paid by Redhat to spend time and effort they could spend elsewhere continuing to give their high quality security coverage to what is now an older OS, for free. I have a remote server that is FC3, it came with FC3 and the only other choice was Windows, so I am motivated to want security coverage... but... before we huff and puff about 'community' we have to realize we are demanding their work for free in such a case. R
I've been giving my time, freely, for free for almost ten years, and before the Internet, to chess organisations.
I _always_ listened to my chessplayers and tried to give the service they wanted, and I always try to give good advice to computer users.
The value of the time I've given is way more than RH would have got had I merely bought one every retail pack they ever released, and is well comparable to that given by many OSS authors.
So far as I can judge it, much the same is true of Jo, and long timers will recall names such as Tony Nugent, Thom Pain, Jo Klemmer who've also given years of service.