Re: CentOS-6 Status updates

[Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 6/14/2011 12:19 PM, m.roth@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> I'm an admin. I'm a contractor.

Oh - OK.  Then you aren't expected to care about the long term consequences.

>> OK, but what was that about things like ruby and java? (Java being more
>> or less OK now...).  If you don't use/need software from this decade,
>> then maybe it isn't a big issue for you either way.
>
> "This decade"? Oh, come *on* Mike, be real. Just because the languages
> they use are changing continually doesn't mean that a *language* compiler
> or interpreter a couple-three years old shouldn't work.

The flip side of that is that you are ignoring thousands (millions?) of 
man-hours of development work in improvements that could be yours for free.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx



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