Re: new releases [was Re: Official public code repository]

[Enrico Colombini <erix@...>]

> MS isn't going away any time soon.

But its products certainly are, and sometimes they disappear from one 
day to the next. Just to refer to different time periods, think of MS 
BASIC for Macintosh, OS/2, recently even Visual Basic as programmers 
used to know it.
MS is probably one of the worst examples to quote when speaking of 
assurance of continued availability and support.

> I've been accused of [...] asking for the Moon

Just a pun on "Lua"... sorry, I couldn't resist :-) But if you (or your 
boss) really believe "the larger the company, the better the support" or 
that something is more reliable because there's a corporation behind it, 
you're in for big disillusionments indeed.

  Enrico