Jos Vos wrote: > For all the 1000+ apps in a distro, there are mailing lists, forums, > or additional commercial support.
Uh... no. If you want to work for such a distro for free, go ahead. > I understand your point, but this is the way it all works. And, again, > the same happens for all other apps. Still, vendors *do* a lot of work > to maintain their distro, backport security fixes etc. That's their business. I'm happy for them to make money doing that. But if their customers are expecting third-party support, they're sadly mistaken. The only support they'll get is "UPGRADE!" > Not necessarily. When they have production servers and at some point > people want to include a RADIUS server, or start using webmail, or want > to enable some other subsystem, then they are going to start using a new > feature on their (old) boxes. Then they are welcome to upgrade to a version *we* support. If they're not willing to do that, they can pay support to Redhat. If they're not willing to do that, then *you* can support them. I don't see any reason I should support them. Alan DeKok. - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
