On 22-Dec-98 Russell Nelson wrote:
> Scott Ballantyne writes:
> > To blame djb for someone else shipping sendmail is, well, it's
> > hysterical.
>
> The conditions necessary to eliminate sendmail from hundreds of
> thousands of computers have been laid out. Redhat *wants* to ship
> qmail, but they need those conditions satisfied. Are you suggesting
> that there is no compromise worth ridding the world of hundreds of
> thousands of security disasters?
>
> It is entirely Dan's failure to act that has caused hundreds of
> thousands of *new* copies of sendmail to be installed. I don't think
> hysteria is a sufficiently extreme reaction.
That's not how I remember it. I seem to recall Donnie making demands
and what I saw as thinly veiled threats to have Dan redesign or allow
him/them to redesign the locations of files as he/they saw fit without
Dan even having a say in the matter or he "would never ship qmail with
RedHat". I won't bother going into any of the details beyond that as
I'm sure you can find them in the archives that are on the web anyway.
This latest rant is boring and a waste of time anyway.
Vince.
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