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Long-term support and backport riskLong-term support and backport riskPosted Jun 20, 2007 20:21 UTC (Wed) by jwboyer (subscriber, #23296)Parent article: Long-term support and backport risk
""This kind of breakage in an update isn't acceptable for the people paying for those expensive support contracts." If the latter position proves true, it can be seen as an illustration of the costs imposed on the process by proprietary modules."
That isn't specific to proprietary modules. It can happen for any out-of-tree module, regardless of license.
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Long-term support and backport risk Posted Jun 21, 2007 6:46 UTC (Thu) by smurf (subscriber, #17840) [Link] Sure it can, but at least the open-source out-of-tree module is fixable.
Contrast that with a closed-source vendor's (*cough* NVidia *cough*) policy that their latest driver not only fixes bugs and supports newer hardware, but also discontinues support for "older" hardware.
Ouch.
Long-term support and backport risk Posted Jun 21, 2007 13:21 UTC (Thu) by jwboyer (subscriber, #23296) [Link] Right, I was merely commenting that Dave's original quote was taken slightly out of context. There are open-source drivers that are out of tree and still go through certification on Enterprise distros. Having to rework and recertifiy those is something that vendors and users hate, especially when paying high dollars.
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