[ale] Fedora grousing

[James Sumners]

On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 10:42 AM, leam hall <leamhall at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yet the adherence to decade old software doesn't help businesses perform.
> Who cares if CentOS runs better if it won't run the software the business
> needs to run? Since the business hires programmers, and they are as keen as
> we are to stay current in our respective fields, they have to do things like
> "move forward".
>
> The stone age tools system admins try to require developers to use is
> probably the biggest fuel for the "DevOps" fire. One that we will be
> consumed by.


Let's reword that from a different perspective:

Who cares if the newest development platforms aren't fully audited and
could be full of security holes? The business gets to "move forward"
at the cost of security!

-- 
James Sumners
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