On Thu, 10 May 2007 04:05:37 +0200 (CEST) "Carlos E. R." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > The Wednesday 2007-05-09 at 15:57 +0200, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote: > > .... > > > Sometimes software business is really odd. Nobody would ever throw away his > > car only because it is 5 years old but still running ok, even if the > > manufacturer tells him to because there is a brand new one available with > > lots > > of cool new features. Why do you even try to argue like this for software? > > It happens also with cars and anything else. There is a moment when a car > is no longer manufactured, but they still make spares. Then even spares > are no longer made, then the spares in storage are spent, then the last > users have to get used spares from the dumps, and finally only collectors > can maintain those cars by making those spares by hand themselves. > > Obviously, when the manufacturer stop making the car, the dealers have to > stop selling it - even if they are good cars and they work - for instance, > the "beetle" or the "600". > > Same here with the PHP4. The developers (the car manufacturers) will stop > maintaining it by year end; thus suse (the car dealer) has to stop > providing it because they can't get it upstream (the car manufacturers). > If you want to maintain it, you can do as the car collectors: do your own > maintenance, or pay a special garage to maintain it for you (ie, pay your > own developers). It's open source, after all... I love your talking about this example, especially where you elaborated about the _owners_ of the already sold cars. Sorry, but you missed the topic (again). I am talking about people who already own and use the car happily, to stay in the picture. I cannot believe it is that hard to understand why it makes no sense to drop working stuff ... -- Regards, Stephan von Krawczynski --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
