Maarten Wiltink wrote: > Almost. People come from the Windows world with the idea that > 'setup.exe, Next, Next, Next, Next, Finish' is as hard as it's > allowed to be.
They also come with the expectation that software be forward-compatible, and mostly backward-compatible. Upgrading to a new version shouldn't wreck your configuration. Changing the meaning of a configuration keyword - especially one related to security - is a astonishingly bad idea. This is one critical area of software development that MS and other closed-source vendors get mostly right. And one in which much open source software fails miserably. For example, there are many thousands of hackable open-source bulletin board sites out there right now. Not because the holes haven't been fixed by the developers, mind you - the holes were fixed years ago. But the same developers provide absolutely no workable process to get from version 1.1 to version 2.0 without throwing most everything away and starting over from scratch. _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
