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Security Support for Debian 3.1 to be terminated

Security Support for Debian 3.1 to be terminated

Posted Mar 3, 2008 6:07 UTC (Mon) by njs (subscriber, #40338)
In reply to: Security Support for Debian 3.1 to be terminated by sbergman27
Parent article: Security Support for Debian 3.1 to be terminated

Oh, come on.  A suggestion: if you look at your comment and realizes that it involves
comparing *Debian* to *Microsoft*, then stop and ask yourself what you're trying to do.  If
your answer is "troll", then carry on.  If the answer is "attempt to contribute to a
thoughtful discussion", then maybe consider an analogy that communicates your point without
being pointlessly inflammatory?  Because if you really want to talk about the trade-offs in
providing and procuring multi-year support for distributions, we can do that, but coming
across as a propagandizing fanboy (it's the way you use "real" that clinches it, here) just...
doesn't get us there.  All it does it make people either roll their eyes or nod in agreement,
depending on whether their existing prejudices match yours.


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Security Support for Debian 3.1 to be terminated

Posted Mar 3, 2008 23:29 UTC (Mon) by GreyWizard (subscriber, #1026) [Link]

Well said.

Security Support for Debian 3.1 to be terminated

Posted Mar 4, 2008 0:01 UTC (Tue) by sbergman27 (subscriber, #10767) [Link]

If you consider my post to be of an inflammatory nature, you have obviously  completely
misinterpreted it.  I sometimes fail to sugar coat my observations enough to avoid offending
some Debian users.

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