On Tue, 27 Jul 2021 15:30:05 +0000 "Joel Esler (jesler)" <jes...@cisco.com> wrote:
> You can’t support everything, forever. When you are part of critical infrastructure -- as computers have become -- you must. (Well, not quite forever.) Compare the rollout of IPv6 with the rollout of x86_64 (not to mention the rollout years ago of Area Codes and Direct Distance Dialing). IPv6 is better than IPv4 in providing many more IP addresses, but it hasn't replaced it: it's incompatible. (Why didn't they simply add more bits, like int32 => int64?) In CPUs, x86_64, which is backward compatible, has taken over, while its "replacement", Itanium is gone. (ARM is spreading, of course, but not because x86_64 is being dropped upon software upgrade; even Apple can't do that for a few years). And imagine what would have happened 50 years ago if you had needed new telephones and a second telephone number to take advantage of DDD. Of course ClamAV now belongs to Cisco, and there is no money cost to users, but the work cost to keep up-to-date has gotten much worse recently (mainly because of the response to bandwidth abuse), and some less dedicated users are probably giving up. _______________________________________________ clamav-users mailing list clamav-users@lists.clamav.net https://lists.clamav.net/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml
