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I think the long-standing impression left by 5.0 (despite carrying explicit warnings about being appropriate for early adopters) carries a good lesson for us: t
by emaste 9y ago
I think the long-standing impression left by 5.0 (despite carrying explicit warnings about being appropriate for early adopters) carries a good lesson for us: this sort of lore is surprisingly sticky. It doesn't matter that 5.0 was very much an anomaly that wasn't repeated, and that recent .0 releases were very stable. I suspect end-users like John are going to avoid .0 releases for as long as they use FreeBSD.
- cperciva 9y agoYou're probably right, but that doesn't mean that we shouldn't point out at every possible opportunity that 5.0 was an anomaly and was clearly identified at the time as being an anomaly. Maybe we can't convince John to unlearn his wrong lessons, but I'd like to avoid having him teach those wrong lessons to everybody else.