Em 16/04/2010 08:15, Giampaolo Tomassoni escreveu:
Indeed, an EOL on the previous minor version is quite an hazard and may be
regarded as a self-destructive behavior: it could easily became an
End-Of-(product-)Line, meaning that people will switch to something more
"serious"...
this is the first time, in SEVERAL years that i work with IT, that
i've seen a software publisher pushing a 'kill' signature to its own
software.
it's VERY common in the software industry to stop supporting old
versions, but they simply stay working. They're outdated, unsupported,
but they keep working. I have a working Redhat 9 machine running until
today, despite the fact it's SEVERAL years unsupported and deprecated.
Is this the best thing to do ? No, absolutely not, i dont want credits
for that. But hey, it simply continue working.
clamav took a VERY bad move, there's absolutely no doubt on that.
This will surely affect the software credibility, as you can be sure
that LOTS and LOTS of email servers are broken since the signature was
published.
despite the fact there's was good reasons for doing that, it WAS a
VERY bad move IMHO.
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Atenciosamente / Sincerily,
Leonardo Rodrigues
Solutti Tecnologia
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