[om-council] Council meeting April 21st follow-up [2]

Kate Lebedeff kate at lebedeff.co.uk
Fri Apr 22 21:06:57 EDT 2016


> 
>> Users needing a SO for their work or for their important things, they
>> do *need* safety.
> 
> Agreed - but the way to provide it is by having a nice way to update to 3 safely.
> 
> This is hardly unique to us either. Last time I checked, Apple force-fed updates to users (without even giving them a lot of control over when to do it) and Microsoft seems to have a nag screen about updating to Windows 10 for people on older versions.
> Despite having tens of thousands of developers, those companies are so scared of having to maintain old versions that they even give away free updates when a large part of their previous business model relied on selling those updates for insane prices.
> Yet somehow we're expected to keep supporting old stuff indefinitely, and even provide people with new features on old branches (something the competitors have never done).
> 
> ttyl
> bero
> 
> 

this gets us back (imo) to discussion about rolling release

and this part by Bero "(something the competitors have never done)” - could become our yet another strong point - to PR hard

IF we figure out how to do it without burning out our very valued people




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