On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 14:22 -0400, max wrote:
Matthew Miller wrote:
> 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.
>
>
>
Informing people of the dangers is the right thing to do, forcing them
down your path is never the right thing to do.
unless you're a sysadmin for a large university, for example.
-sv