[nzlug] Redhat 7.1 - why do people still use this??

[Martin Bähr]

On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 01:15:30PM +1300, cr wrote:
> Still, the motivation to upgrade surely should come from the customer, who 
> wants the 'cool new things', not from the seller forcing the customer into 
> it.

i disagree.
see:
http://billyonopensource.blogspot.com/2007/11/legacy-code-triple-threat.html

as long as the customer is running an old version of the OS i have to
support my application on that version, costing me extra work and money
without any gain.

greetings, martin.
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