Kai Krakow <hurikha...@gmail.com> writes: > Am Sun, 14 May 2017 02:18:56 +0100 > schrieb lee <l...@yagibdah.de>: > >> Kai Krakow <hurikha...@gmail.com> writes: >> >> > Am Sat, 29 Apr 2017 20:02:57 +0100 >> > schrieb lee <l...@yagibdah.de>: >> > >> >> Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> writes: >> >> >> [...] >> [...] >> [...] >> >> >> >> The intended users are incompetent, hence it is too difficult to >> >> use ... >> > >> > If you incompetent users are using Windows: Have you ever tried >> > entering ftp://u...@yoursite.tld in the explorer directory input >> > bar? >> >> I tried at work and it said something like that the service cannot be >> accessed. >> >> >> > [...] >> > Debian is not the king to rule the internet. You shouldn't care when >> > they shut down their FTP services. It doesn't matter to the rest of >> > the world using the internet. >> >> Who can say what their influence actually is? Imagine Debian going >> away, and all the distributions depending on them as well because they >> loose their packet sources, then what remains? It is already rather >> difficult to find a usable distribution, and what might the effect on >> upstream sources be. > > The difference is: They only shut down a service. They are not > vanishing from the internet. You cannot conclude from that, they are: > > (a) shutting down all their service > (b) ftp is deprecated and nobody should use it any longer > > And I didn't write that you shouldn't care if Debian vanishes. I only > said it shouldn't mean anything to you if they shut down their FTP > services for probably good reasons. It's not the end of life, the > universe, and everything. And you can keep your towel. > > What I wanted to say: Debian is not that important that everyone will > shut down FTP now and kill FTP support from client software. That > simply won't happen. That is not what it means when Debian is shutting > down a service.
I didn't say that Debian is vanishing, only that I doubt that they are without influence and that their influence might easily be underestimated. -- "Didn't work" is an error.
