On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 14:22 -0400, max wrote: > Matthew Miller wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 10:39:16AM -0400, Horst H. von Brand wrote: > >> On philosophical grounds, I'm against forcing people forward, even for > >> their own good... /encouraging/ them forward is a much better idea. > > > > It's not for their good. It's for *our* good as distribution developers and > > as network citizens. > > > > And it's part of our responsibility: we're putting powerful software into > > their hands and then not providing security updates for it for very long at > > all. Turning off network access before they all become part of a gigantic > > botnet is the right thing to do. > > > > > > > Informing people of the dangers is the right thing to do, forcing them > down your path is never the right thing to do. unless you're a sysadmin for a large university, for example. -sv -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
