On Wednesday 09 April 2003 05:24 pm, Marius Andreiana wrote: > Also, developers paid by Red Hat to work on > GTK, GNOME are doing important new development, not fixing bugs after > the final release have been shipped.
So the bugs never get fixed while we get new important features. Am I the only
one who doesn't see this as a good thing?
I'll weigh in here. I see Red Hat's RHEL strategy as a wonderful thing, primarily since making a buck or two in profit will allow them to thrive and succeed and grow which is the only way they'll be around for a long time. The one thing I don't like right now is that there is currently no middle ground between RHL and RHEL. I would like to use RHEL for my office and RHL for my home; however, there is no way I can afford RHEL for a 15-computer office. The home and enterprise markets are being served, but the SOHO market is out on a limb.
As far as bugs getting fixed or not, I note that there has been no statement from RH on this, so really all we have is the theories of a few users who may be right or wrong but are, at best, guessing. In my opinion (FWIW), important new features are nice, but stability, robustness, and proper functioning are CRITICAL. If there's a bug that affects me (or lots of users) in a package that RH includes in RHL, I expect it to be fixed! "We'll fix it for the next release in six months" is really not an acceptable solution, so I hope that RH keeps up with past tradition and fixes things that were broken when a distribution was released.
-- Rodolfo J. Paiz rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
