What's the official status of 3.5.x, anyway?
Dotan Cohen
dotancohen at gmail.com
Mon Jul 13 14:22:41 BST 2009
> Additionally, even if some applications are no longer maintained by their
> original developers, they could still be maintained by people having an
> interest in keeping them available, e.g. developers at Red Hat, Novell, KDAB,
> Credativ, etc.
>
> This is, after all, one of the key features of Free Software.
> And one of the few working business models around it [1].
>
2006: Hey buddy, want to save a bundle? Come use our free OS and
desktop! All the apps you need, at no cost and the freedom to modify
them as you see fit!
2009: Hey buddy, the dev stopped supporting the software that you now
depend on? I can maintain it for you, only $xyz per issue.
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Dotan Cohen
http://what-is-what.com
http://gibberish.co.il
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