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The Friday 2007-05-11 at 12:00 +0200, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote:
> On Thu, 10 May 2007 04:05:37 +0200 (CEST)
> "Carlos E. R." <> wrote:
> > 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 ...
Ok, the analogy holds. I were the happy owner of a still working Seat 600
car - this car signified the car revolution in Spain, it is like talking
of the W. Beetle or the Ford T here - I'd have to maintain it myself. It
went many years ago out of production, even if customers wanted it a lot.
Even now people want it, and I can see it on the streets: seldom, but some
of them.
I'd have problems finding spares; I'd have problems finding "leaded" gas;
I'd have problems passing the ITV, the technical yearly inspection
mandatory for cars over 10 years: test the brakes in the roller bed and
the car is ejected out due to its low weight (and the test calls for
braking from 100 Km/h when this car doesn't reach that tremendous speed).
I'd have problems even with parking, because the car is small and the
fender is low, so other cars would scratch my antique paint, or worse. And
no cute features like air conditioning, of course.
The analogy holds.
You want to keep using a "relic", fine: but you will have to do it
yourself. However, as you are talking of a webserver with clients, you
should be using the SLES version with a five year cycle, and you would not
have this problem, or not all of it. It's like joining an Antique
Automobile Club with Repair Shop included.
;-)
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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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