Dear Russ,
[huge snip]
Look ... if you understand how build work, and I know you do, then you understand that one can not release updates that are built on 4.8 without releasing 4.8.
If you need the updates faster, feel free to pay Redhat for them.
There - I feel so much better getting that lot off my chest :)
There are always other distros if you don't like this one ...
Exactly the *wrong* response. I wonder if responses similar to this loses potential users or loses existing customers. Personally, it disgusts me.
I'd like to double this: It'd be exactly the same (or one of two) response(s) that one would get from the OpenBSD guys, at least the less social ones that don't have a clue to control themselves. The other one would be 'Shut the f*** up and code!'.
After a really long odyssey I ended up (almost) where I started: Using NetBSD and CentOS (at least, what's OSS).
Best,
Timo