On Apr 16, 2010, at 11:25 AM, Giampaolo Tomassoni wrote:
Was this the purpose?
Giampaolo
Then that is their choice and when it fails, they can bitch to the
developers of that system and switch to another vendor .......
Apart the fact that open software is not yet-another-vendor. It is a
culture.
No, ClamAV is a VENDOR that happens to be part of the open software
community.
There have been numerous pieces of software that I have used over the
years that have died on the vine and no longer suitable for new
systems. Do I rant at them that they MUST provide me with a new
version, no, I deal with it. Either building my own from sources or
moving on to a new piece of software.....
The way the clamav team managed this case hits the open software
community
as a whole, being the ClamAV project a well-known member of that
community.
Yes, but not necessarily in a negative way...... One of the MAJOR
problems with Microsoft software is their insane insistence on
backwards compatibility. Sometimes it does not make sense to do so and
you just have to bite the bullet and let people know it will not work.
In Microsoft's case they simply fail to let people know...... in
addition to breaking it.
Giampaolo
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