On 7/11/25 06:10, Daniel Stenberg via curl-library wrote: > On Fri, 11 Jul 2025, Timothe Litt via curl-library wrote: > >> bricking hardware by making it impossible to access them will not make you >> any friends.... > > First, if this change would *brick* a device that would be entirely because > of > stupid engineering and not because of curl. > > Then, I would to just say that unless these companies are paying someone for > curl, we have no particular responsibilities whatsoever towards them and they > should just be happy what we ship code they can use.
I think it is more likely that it would prevent various third-party tools from being able to access the devices. Vendors will simply not update curl in their clients, but third-party tools are usually maintained by people who are more responsible. -- Sincerely, Demi Marie Obenour (she/her/hers)
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