Well, prosecution would be justified if ClamAV had actually done
something illegal. What they did was modifiy their signature database to
support new features with advance notice and the fact that any
particular installation of unsupported software failed to handle it
properly is the onus of the owners / sysadmins of the individual
systems. If you happen to fall into that category, then it is time to
upgrade your system.
I am not a lawyer but I do think that this is something that the
authorities might possibly examine.
I do think that pushing out an update which disables functionality
without explicitly requesting permission to make such a change
*before* making that change *should* be criminal.
Ie: without someone on the server which is about to have a service
stopped having to at least press the 'y' key on their keyboard, for
example.
This kind of thing really is extremely arrogant, I can see no other
way to put it. Sorry if that offends.
And I am sure that authorities will examine it and I sincerely hope they
waste as much of YOUR tax dollars as possible doing so.
And no offense taken by your posting.
Jim
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