[fsl-discuss] Eben on Microsoft vs. Free Software

[Aaron Grewell]

> At least now the global community is waking up and asking; Why do we
> have to upgrade every two years? 

Of course, then one has to ask Red Hat why we have to upgrade every year as 
well, as their patch support for non-Enterprise versions is now only a year.  
Linux as a  whole (certainly free software as a whole) may not adhere to such 
things, but businesses always will as a matter of revenue stream.  As long as 
businesses are unwilling or unable to do all their own software support EOL 
is a simple matter of economic reality.