On 07/06/2011 03:19 AM, P.J. Eby wrote:
At 08:56 PM 7/5/2011 +0200, Martijn Faassen wrote:
Sure. Unacceptable interference with the freedom of package authors to
remove stuff. Unacceptable because developers need
the freedom to remove old versions of their software from the
internet. :)
You still seem to be ignoring the part where insisting that people keep
old things around for your convenience *also* means they get support
requests from everyone *else* on the internet. In other words, a package
author has to pay an (ongoing and perpetual) support cost for your
temporary convenience.
You are not making a principled moral stand here. Rather, you are asking
that other people be made to carry an additional cost, for your benefit,
on the basis that you don't think their cost is important, but you think
your benefit is.
A package once released to the Internet can be kept by someone else on
the Internet, no matter what the original package author has to say, if
that package has a license which permits it.
I'm looking for a way to make packages stay unchanged in a way
convenient for myself and others.
Regards,
Martijn
P.S. Concerning morality, way off topic. Perhaps reflect on impugning
someone's morality as an aspect of moral behavior? Thanks.
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