Re: [cobalt-developers] 2.2.14 kernel

[Jim Troutman <jlt@xxxxxxxxx>]

> Should they make 3-style software for the MIPS platform?  I'm sure
> they've done the market research.  Let's face it guys, you don't upgrade
> a TV set (not even the ones that cost more than RaQs).  It's an
> appliance.

True -- I know that for myself, I'd be happy to pay an annual "software
maintainance" fee to get continued feature upgrades for the old MIPS
hardware.  I don't want to pay for bug fixes, but for feature upgrades or
version upgrades, a couple hundred bucks a year would be fine, and that is
what would pay for the development time to 'back port' improvements from
the newer products.

This is one of the reasons Cisco is so sucessful -- you can take a 2500
series router that you bought 5 years ago, and put the latest IOS software
on it, if you have a maintaince/software support agreement.  The older
hardware is still perfectly fine for a lot of people's needs, and will
continue to be.

> > How about putting release dates on the raq 2 and raq 3 patches download
> > page.

Yes!  The numbering scheme for the patches seems to have eluded any
rational design processes.  Release dates for each patch would be a big
help.

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