Re: Fedora Desktop future- RedHat moves

On Fri, 2008-04-25 at 22:33 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
Les wrote:

But that is the problem. The folks with proprietary want to limit your
use to only the systems they have chosen to support, thus you can end up
with instruments or software that you have purchased that will not run
when the OS changes.

That's hardly unique to proprietary software. I once relied heavily on
CIPE as a VPN, but FC2 just dumped it with no replacement. Yes, I could
have kept all the broken pieces of the source code...
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wasn't the cipe code dropped from the 2.6 kernel?

Craig

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