On 24 Apr 2007, at 19:35, Peter Houppermans wrote:
...
... I would just make the (IMHO entirely logical) observation that
the original code thus stands a good chance of harbouring
significantly more problems, they just haven't been discovered
yet. Let's call it the iceberg effect.
This leads to an interesting choice, either:
- trust your accounts and their integrity to a team that evidently
works hard to make it work as it should, with pretty defined goals
and with evidence that what they have set themselves out to do is
indeed happening (and you have the option of going the 1.1 or 1.2
route - I'll go 1.2 as I start afresh anyway) or
- use the original code (i.e. SL) and keep wondering what other
problems you'll never hear about. Personally, that's not quite the
sort of beta test I'd like to be exposed to.
Well said.
Admittedly the schedule of my migration to L-SMB was advanced by
unrelated issues, but this is fundamentally why that migration was on
the table.
When I realised the implications of the original SL security
vulnerability, that (someone as ill-educated as) I could understand
the risk inherent in the bug AND yet the developer obviously did
not ... well, at that point SL became no longer a serious contender
for my use.
I guess I would rather suffer bugs from developers committed to
fixing them than just sweep it all under the table, as is obviously
occurring in SL installations. If your data is stored in a schema
that is fundamentally broken, then what hope do you have?
I should add that I have had very excellent one-to-one, hands-on and
real-time support from Chris Travers on IRC. He was able to answer my
questions at each step of the migration process and as problems arose
- when we had finished he (initially) rejected my offers to pay for
his time. I find this to be in stark contrast to the SL mailing list
where I would often receive no reply to a question that seemed surely
very easy to answer.
Stroller.
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