[ Thanks to Jim
Lynch for this link. ]
“Since we live in an entropic universe, things end.
Heady stuff for a Monday morning, I will admit, but just keep
drinking that coffee, you’ll catch up.“That endings happen on a regular basis is nothing new; we see
evidence of change and chaos every day. We just don’t like to talk
about it. Endings can make us jumpy, sad, angry. Who likes saying
goodbye to a visiting friend, or watch the last game of the
season?“Which is why, I think, people have such strange reactions to
end-of-life notifications for open source software. Let’s see if we
can’t put people at ease a bit. Veterans of software development
might think this topic is a waste of time, given their expertise. I
have to wonder though, given the recent reaction in the community
when Oracle posted a normal end-of-service-life policy page about
OpenSolaris back in February. People who should have known better,
to put it in technical terms, freaked out, thinking OpenSolaris was
about to go to that great decompiler in the sky.”