What's the official status of 3.5.x, anyway?

[Kevin Krammer]

On Monday, 2009-07-13, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > Additionally, even if some applications are no longer maintained by their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.

Well, no.

More like

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!
Or have guaranteed availability of fixes for five years, only $xyz per year.

2009: see 2006

Cheers,
Kevin

-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring

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