| A huge chunk of that was that he was fed up with stable distributions shipping older versions of his software, so he'd get inundated by bug reports from users who were reporting things he'd already fixed. He argued that distros like Debian Stable and RHEL were actually more prone to bugs because of this. He wanted distros to use either rolling release or the Microsoft/Apple model, where the OS vendor only ships the base OS and all other software is acquired from third parties. Because of this, he ended up putting in a termination clause in his license: > 3. Redistributions of this software accessible plainly with a name > of this software ("ion", "ion3", etc.), must provide the latest > release with a reasonable delay from its release (normally 28 days). > Older releases may be distributed, if the full version, or some > other explicit indicator, such as the word "ancient", is part of > the name that the package is accessed with, or if this identifier > is completely unrelated to a name of this software. |