Re: cURL author receives rude LogJ4 security inquiry

2022-01-30 Thread dick
Thanks in large part to the readers of this list, the time is past when people bought shrink-wrapped software off store shelves. Indie programmers must now give away their work to gain any market presence. So let's not pretend it's altruism. Ballmer's invocation of the cancer analogy, while certa

Re: cURL author receives rude LogJ4 security inquiry

2022-01-30 Thread DJ Delorie
Akira Urushibata writes: > When you get something for free, you are supposed to say thanks. While I agree with you in general, when you say "you are supposed to..." you are restricting freedoms. When you choose to write free software, you choose to let people use it without quid pro quo[*]. If

cURL author receives rude LogJ4 security inquiry

2022-01-30 Thread Akira Urushibata
LogJ4 Security Inquiry - Response Required https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2022/01/24/logj4-security-inquiry-response-required/ On Friday January 21, 2022 I received this email. I tweeted about it and it took off like crazy. The email comes from a fortune-500 multi-billion dollar company that