On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 10:39:16AM -0400, Horst H. von Brand wrote:
On philosophical grounds, I'm against forcing people forward,
even for
their own good... /encouraging/ them forward is a much better idea.
It's not for their good. It's for *our* good as distribution developers and
as network citizens.
And it's part of our responsibility: we're putting powerful software into
their hands and then not providing security updates for it for very long at
all. Turning off network access before they all become part of a gigantic
botnet is the right thing to do.
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Matthew Miller mattdm(a)mattdm.org <
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