On Apr 21, 2010, at 9:13 AM, Simon Hobson wrote:
Christopher X. Candreva wrote:
> No, according to certain people on this list, you are a cretin, and
incompetent to even handle the off switch of a computer. If you
check the list
archives - particular for threads "(no subject)" and "Those EOL
tweets" you'll
see that you are far from alone.
Well hell, if we're going to degenerate to this level, I don't
think you're
a cretin, I think you're a commie freeloader who thinks the world
owes you a
living.
Let's at least get the name-calling right.
Homer: In case you missed it, that was sarcasam.
Marge: Well, DUH.
Sarcasm or not, I think you are far off the mark - but in any case,
I'm sure cretin was used as one description, as was incompetent. As
for commie freeloader - I don't think you could be much further from
the truth, but that's my opinion and you're welcome to yours. And I
don't believe I have at any point asked for anything other than to
not have my system remotely borked. I haven't demanded that people
keep providing updates to my AV sigs, or that they do anything for
me - other than not borking my system.
By that reasoning, had you only turned off freshclam after you had a
working installation you would happily still be running your <0.95
ClamAV installation.
The ClamAV team released the project under an open licence which
allows anyone to use it in any way they wish. They then later take
it upon themselves to impose by force* a 'solution'. If they'd
stopped providing sig updates then I'd not be complaining, but that
isn't what they did.
No they took it upon themselves to not reinvent a whole new update
scheme so the you could continue to run your antiquated installation.
I believe my comments neatly summed up the attitudes of a group of
people - my opinion.
* I know, they aregue that they did no such thing, and that they
were 'invited' by the act of me running freshclam. That's the sort
of thing a criminal uses to justify their actions - you know, "yes I
did steal their telly, but they should have upgraded their locks
like I pretended I'd told them to and then I wouldn't have done it".
--
Simon Hobson
Jim
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