Why?

[Fairlight]

When asked his whereabouts on Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 04:10:39PM -0400,
Jay Ashworth took the fifth, drank it, and then slurred:
> 
> Where this *really* gets hairy is when, for example 4.8 to 5.0 (or even
> 4.5 to 5.0) costs $BIGBUCKS, and they won't support you on the last
> point release of that older version -- I don't precisely recall
> fPtech's policy here, but I think it's that they will support 4.8.$LAST
> and no 4.5's at all.  I still have clients happily purring away on 4.5,
> in at least one case on RedHat 5.2.

Last I heard, there's no 4.8 support.  You can't even download the latest
4.8.  I think Tony Ryder has been trying for a while now.

> Indeed.  Which means that you're holding your *developer* clients
> hostage over your licensing policy at the gunpoint of your support
> department.

Gee, sounds like Red Hat.  :)

> Definitely a good reason to deploy on Linux rather than Windoze, though.

Don't give anyone ideas.  Next you know, they'll be rummaging /proc for
something unique to the system.

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