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Date:      Wed, 4 Oct 2000 09:48:58 -0500
From:      Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
Cc:        Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com>, Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>, Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com>, Paul Richards <paul@originative.co.uk>, Christopher Masto <chris@netmonger.net>, Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, Joseph Scott <joseph.scott@owp.csus.edu>, Brian Somers <brian@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: How long for -stable [ Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/finger finger.c ]
Message-ID:  <20001004094858.I26605@puck.firepipe.net>
In-Reply-To: <20001004000827.B27736@fw.wintelcom.net>; from bright@wintelcom.net on Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 12:08:27AM -0700
References:  <kris@FreeBSD.ORG> <85378.970625261@winston.osd.bsdi.com> <20001003192158.A14805@freefall.freebsd.org> <200010040349.VAA27923@nomad.yogotech.com> <20001004000827.B27736@fw.wintelcom.net>

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On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 12:08:27AM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> > However, I didn't bother making the fix available because I felt it
> > might give people the wrong impression.  Just because *I* am willing to
> > support a really old release such as FreeBSD 2, I still feel the users
> > should be 'encouraged' to use newer releases.  By not making those fixes
> > available (which were in fact rather trivial to do), those folks who
> > aren't capable of fixing the bugs will be more likely to upgrade their
> > systems to a newer 'more supported' release.
> > 
> > I think supporting older releases *really* needs to be done by a
> > commercial entity (or at least folks who have a commercial stake in
> > seeing it done), since the majority of developers are in it for the
> > development fun, and product support is all but fun. :(
> 
> I think it's a bit selfish of you to keep these fixes to yourself,
> and it's the wrong attitude to have especially if you're confident
> about a fix, there's always people stuck with ancient releases in
> production and could use the help.

I agree with Alfred, and think that this sort of "social engineering" is
not acceptable in a project like this.

-- 
Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu> - Physics Computer Network wench
The Universal Answer to All Problems - "It has something to do with physics."
	-- Comic on door of Room 240, Physics Building, Purdue University


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