License Manager Issues

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Sun, Dec 02, 2007 at 10:59:38PM -0500, Fairlight wrote:
> Four score and seven years--eh, screw that!
> At about Sun, Dec 02, 2007 at 08:22:36PM -0500,
> Kenneth Brody blabbed on about:
> > I don't think it exists, but I don't think it's too unreasonable to say
> > that you need something more recent than a 5-1/2 year old O/S.  (glibc
> > version 2.3 was released in 2002, and redhat 7 is earlier than that.)
> 
> Uhm, you don't, do you?  When, again, was SCO OSR 5.0.6 released?  I'm
> betting it was near that long ago.
> 
> Release = 3.2v5.0.6
> KernelID = 2000-07-27
> 
> More like 7+ years.  Bit of a double standard, wouldn't you say?  And
> if we're going to the fluid nature of the OS and how often thing are
> updated--don't.  It's not an excuse unless your product flat-out -can't- be
> compiled against an older library and/or kernel.  I -highly- doubt that fP
> has anything in it that falls into that category..

And to hammer my own personal favorite nail again: this is not a retail
product: it's a *development system*, aimed at people who themselves
produce enduser products... which imposes on it a whole different set
of reasonability expectations, of which this is merely the most prominent.

Cheers
-- jra
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