On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 19:51 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: > We probably need to attack this trend more aggressively, like putting > expiration dates into the installer after which it'll just refuse to > install Honestly, that's just a great way to turn more people off. There are plenty of valid reasons to run old software, security updates or no - testing for compatibility being one obvious one (either with the O/S itself, or versions of software the O/S shipped with - when did Fedora last ship Firefox 2, for example?) Putting up a message saying "this is no longer supported" - fine. Stopping people / making it impossible? That's not "Freedom". Cheers, Alex. -- This message was scanned by Better Hosted and is believed to be clean. http://www.betterhosted.com -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
