> The reason why I bother this list is that I am impressed of OpenBSD from > the technical point of view. I like its consistency and purity. But in > business environments or comparable organizations where money is an > issue, one needs to think about system management very carefully, since > it has a direct impact on money as well. That's why I can't understand > people can really live with the 6 months lifecycle.
I don't understand this whole conversation. Instead, what those vendors give people is a 5 year patch-every-month cycle. That is completely unsustainable. The pieces we build upon are advancing too fast. I don't buy into that method of operating system componentizatio at all, that you can just keep patching and patching. It was not true 15 years ago, 10 years ago, 5 years ago, and I see no proof that it will be true ever in the future.
