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Date:      Sat, 7 Jun 2008 21:59:30 +0200
From:      Dick Hoogendijk <dick@nagual.nl>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: CLARITY re: challenge: end of life for 6.2 is premature with buggy	6.3
Message-ID:  <20080607215930.000034e6@westmark>
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On Sat, 7 Jun 2008 12:53:10 -0700
Jo Rhett <jrhett@netconsonance.com> wrote:

> Why does it make sense for FreeBSD to stop supporting a  stable
> version and force people to choose between two different unstable
> versions?  Is this really the right thing to do?

NO, it's not.
But you can't change that. The maintainers run the show. It's their time
and their baby. And from one pov that's true. Users have to shut up
if not contributing big time.

I still think your questions are legitimate.
You won't win the battle however.

-- 
Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D
++ http://nagual.nl/ + SunOS sxde 01/08 ++



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