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Kai Krakow <hurikhan77@×××××.com> writes: |
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> Am Sun, 14 May 2017 02:18:56 +0100 |
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> schrieb lee <lee@××××××××.de>: |
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>> Kai Krakow <hurikhan77@×××××.com> writes: |
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>> > Am Sat, 29 Apr 2017 20:02:57 +0100 |
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>> > schrieb lee <lee@××××××××.de>: |
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>> > |
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>> >> Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> writes: |
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>> >> |
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>> [...] |
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>> [...] |
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>> [...] |
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>> >> |
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>> >> The intended users are incompetent, hence it is too difficult to |
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>> >> use ... |
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>> > |
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>> > If you incompetent users are using Windows: Have you ever tried |
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>> > entering ftp://user@××××××××.tld in the explorer directory input |
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>> > bar? |
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>> I tried at work and it said something like that the service cannot be |
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>> accessed. |
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>> > [...] |
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>> > Debian is not the king to rule the internet. You shouldn't care when |
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>> > they shut down their FTP services. It doesn't matter to the rest of |
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>> > the world using the internet. |
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>> Who can say what their influence actually is? Imagine Debian going |
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>> away, and all the distributions depending on them as well because they |
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>> loose their packet sources, then what remains? It is already rather |
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>> difficult to find a usable distribution, and what might the effect on |
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>> upstream sources be. |
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> The difference is: They only shut down a service. They are not |
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> vanishing from the internet. You cannot conclude from that, they are: |
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> (a) shutting down all their service |
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> (b) ftp is deprecated and nobody should use it any longer |
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> And I didn't write that you shouldn't care if Debian vanishes. I only |
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> said it shouldn't mean anything to you if they shut down their FTP |
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> services for probably good reasons. It's not the end of life, the |
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> universe, and everything. And you can keep your towel. |
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> What I wanted to say: Debian is not that important that everyone will |
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> shut down FTP now and kill FTP support from client software. That |
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> simply won't happen. That is not what it means when Debian is shutting |
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> down a service. |
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I didn't say that Debian is vanishing, only that I doubt that they are |
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without influence and that their influence might easily be |
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underestimated. |
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"Didn't work" is an error. |
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