On Apr 16, 2010, at 5:03 AM, Leonardo Rodrigues wrote:
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 They're outdated,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.
Well being you are running an OS that does not have security updates,
maybe you should have just turned off freshclam...... then your system
can run in perpetuity until the hardware fails.....
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