[Gllug] Ubuntu and me - suggestions requested (polite ones

[Richard Jones]

On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 10:45:13AM +0000, John Edwards wrote:
> I can understand the technical reasons for that (Ubuntu 8.04 had
> a lot of package bug fixes released in the first few months), but
> businesses like to be able to plan ahead.
[...]
> I know that this can all be fixed from a technical point of view,
> but given the choice many businesses would like to know how long
> the software they use is going to be supported.

Businesses who are demanding this should pay for it.  Support is the
hard, unsexy, boring bit.  No one is going to backport security
patches to 5 year old software for nothing (at least, no one you'd
trust to do it consistently and correctly every time).

Rich.

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