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.
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