houghi wrote: > On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 06:16:54PM +0200, David Wright wrote: > >> Maybe in cases like the Firefox example which started this thread, where a >> group like Mozilla put out an security warning press release for their >> product, where SUSE are backporting the fix, maybe their should be an >> announcement on the News page of the Wiki that the latest version through >> YOU >> has had said fixes applied to it. >>
We should not forget the aim behind the policy: Any vendor needs to backport, especially for commercial reasons. Otherwise YOU would propell the customer right into the next version and - because of logically necessary version freezes - even right further on, behind next version. The only way out of e.g. the Firefox 1.5.0.2 issue would be to have an OpenSUSE product with no version numbers anymore. Just some weekly or bi-weekly snapshots and YOU brings you from snapshot to snapshot until you stop it manually. Which might be an interesting concept, but commercially not viable at all, because the vendor needs "open" customers who test and help improve commercial products that have to come in frozen versions for reasons we all know very well. FMF --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
