On Apr 21, 2010, at 1:51 PM, Steve Wray wrote:
Peter Bonivart wrote:
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 10:39 PM, Christopher X. Candreva
<ch...@westnet.com> wrote:
IMHO, open source projects don't have a business side.
Opensource projects exist for the developers to get the software
they need,
faster, through colaboration with others. If anyone else finds it
usefull
that's an added bonus. But if no one other than the devs use it
themselves,
the project has fullfilled it's purpose.
Adding business value is the job of the distros, or Apple if they
include
it, or myself as an ISP. That's why I said before I think the real
let-down
here are the distros that didn't do anything about it.
Extreme ? Maybe, but that's why I use open-source, for getting
best of
breed, newest, breaking with history when needed.
This would be ok if the distros maintained the servers which their
distributed version of Clamav updated from.
They don't. The responsibility in this case is that of those who
maintain Clamav, not the distros.
I would suggest that distros may want to take note of this
situation; its perhaps not unreasonable for them to maintain eg
their own Clamav update servers.
Why would you think that it is not the distro's responsibility? They
are the ONLY ones responsible for what they include and all the
software they include is OSS or they could not afford to "give it away".
There is absolutely nothing to stop them from doing so and this list
is filled with instructions on how to do so.
Jim
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