Re: Stable Release Updates types proposal (was Re: Fedora Board Meeting Recap 2010-03-11)

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Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> I should make people sit in a dial-up connection and have them
>> update software now and then to bring them back to the ground.
> 
> I don't see why we should cripple our distribution just to support 
> communication technologies from the 80s or 90s. It's 2010 now, those 
> technologies are over 10 years out of date!
> 
> If the infrastructure sucks where you live, what needs to happen is that the 
> infrastructure needs to improve, not that the whole world adapts to stone-
> age infrastructure. Bandwidth is required for many more applications than 
> just fetching Fedora updates.
> 
>         Kevin Kofler
> 

Be sure to let our friends in developing countries know that to make Fedora's
life easier, they'd better get their infrastructure updated pronto?

I really think this is not the approach, unless Fedora is just for rich people
in (theoretically) rich countries.  I doubt that's what we want.

-Eric
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