[ On Fri, January 22, 1999 at 08:10:41 (+0000), Michael wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: Long term viability of SSH, will there be a free SSH 2?
>
> I don't think so. The author of one of the best, TTSSH, has already
> said he considers the effort too great to support 2.xx
That's not a very good answer or attitude. The 1.x protocol was purely
experimental, and is inadequate for long-term real-world use. There
probably wouldn't even be a 2.x protocol design if 1.x was OK.
> The liscensing for 2.0 clearly needs to change if it is to be
> supported in the long term by the "open" community
That would be nice, but it won't matter much so long as we have at least
one good "open" implementation of the final IETF sanctioned protocol,
and it seems that will be the case, and it'll happen sooner if some of
us stop being lazy and put some effort into supporting those
implementations of 2.x that are already proceeding and/or writing our
own implementations.
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