Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
MS reasons for holding back some stuff are not applicable to Fedora.
Fedora userbase is not segmented between legitimate users (which can get
full updates by going through a portal) and freeloaders (which MS would
dearly love to leave in the dust, but can not for PR reasons).
Not just PR. Windows computers running a stolen operating system
are a threat to Windows computers running a legitimate operating system
-- and, when traffic levels get high, to all other computers. Also,
there are a lot of Windows installations that are paid up but the
licenses aren't quite in order: a lot of sites use tools like Ghost to
maintain desktops, and it's hard to get licensing right in that situation.
Similar pressures would apply to RHEL 4 if RHEL 4 were an attractive
target.
Overall, my experience is that packages become unupdatable over
time in a rawhide or FC# system -- most of the time these are packages I
don't care about, so I throw them overboard. If something I cared
about became unupdatable, I'd have a real problem.
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