Le 2014/12/04 15:16 +0100, Dagobert Michelsen a écrit:
Hi folks,
@Laurent: Please don’t post to maintainers@ and users@ at the same time as it
leads to
bounces when people reply to all from users@
I should have set the reply-to, right.
While I do understand your motivation I personally think it is wrong to remove
stuff,
regardless of how old it is. I cursed the times when I looked up old stuff like
firmware
and it was gone. What has proposed earlier (by Maciej IIRC) was renaming old
stuff to
/UNSUPPORTED-USE-ONLY-IF-YOU-ARE-UNPROFESSIONAL/ or similar which I think is ok.
I'll be direct: no, it is not ok. I truly thought the same some time
ago. Since then, I've seen and interacted with many of those requests.
The point is, those people, they /don't give a fuck/. They will not tell
their customers the risks, nor make an honest assessment of the situation.
I really do not want OpenCSW to be assisting people who are essentially
scammers, helping them to deceive those who give them money.
You don't understand that attitude, because you're honest, and doing
your best for your customers. But it's definitely not the case for those
companies. They're doing the LEAST effort possible, and cashing in on it.
It's not comparable to firmware. A bad OpenBoot cannot be exploited
remotely to get access to your systems, unlike plenty of those packages
we're distributing. I understand your past experience, but don't let it
influence you: your motivations were not the same, at all.
But by all means, again, put a message instead of the catalogs that they
are welcome to assist in maintaining them. So they will contact us when
they need. That's what we need, that's what they need, everybody will be
happy.
Laurent
