Joerg Heinicke wrote:
On 23.09.2008 22:43, Peter Hunsberger wrote:
As the number of versions of Spring used in production grows, it is
impossible for us to provide free maintenance for multiple releases
and perform backports of issues. Doing so would unfairly subsidize
conservative customers who want to remain on a previous version, at
the cost of the open source community.
The reasoning is totally awkward. Nobody questions discontinuing
support for old major releases. But how does the above justify not
providing patch releases after 3 month of a major release? [1] They
are doing those releases anyway.
The last sentence above is purely a joke. At the end the new
maintenance policy is a means to push people into the enterprise
support program. They are absolutely free to do so, but they should
admit it not talk crap.
Yeah. I read this as "3 months after release n+1 is out, release n
becomes closed source". I'm wondering how long it will take for forks to
appear that will provide open source bug fixes to old releases.
Sylvain
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