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Date:      Tue, 12 Jun 2012 19:50:44 -0500
From:      Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>
To:        Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Upcoming release schedule - 8.4 ?
Message-ID:  <20120613005043.GA23142@lonesome.com>
In-Reply-To: <20120612230808.GA68402@jerrymc.net>
References:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1206111537310.19012@kozubik.com> <20120612011645.GA7807@lonesome.com> <20120612151746.GA33004@DataIX.net> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1206121120560.19012@kozubik.com> <20120612230808.GA68402@jerrymc.net>

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On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 07:08:08PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote:
> You sound like the people who can't decide to get something because a
> new version is going to come out sometime before they die.

That may be how it seems to end-users, but as we have heard multiple
times from people who use FreeBSD to help run their businesses, information
about scheduling and support of releases is key to their decisions on when
to upgrade, or even whether to use FreeBSD in the first place.

To them, your characterization is going to sound quite unfair.

mcl



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