Ubuntu Domain Server
Dotan Cohen
dotancohen at gmail.com
Sun Oct 25 16:00:34 UTC 2009
>> Someone may feed himself by selling used books. He has no interest in
>> learning sister admiration whatever that may be. He just wants that
>> new Unbuto thing that will let his customers see what books he has.
>> And of course he will make sure that he can access the customer's data
>> (name, phone number, email address, credit card info) from a little
>> hidden link in the corner that nobody would ever notice.
>
> This could be accomplished just as easily on any webhost and is certainly
> not going to be triggered by a system administration utility, though by this
> logical thread Ubuntu had better get on with removing Quanta and anything
> that makes a complex and possibly dangerous process easier.
>
This is true. I should have used malware and spam server as the example.
> Not including these things is of course not going to hurt anything of
> course. Some people will use a howto to set it up, some people will manage
> to get it working good enough. People that have no interest in either will
> use another distribution which does include them. Of the three I would
> rather they use the other distro; they're probably safer, but it doesn't do
> much for Ubuntu advocacy.
>
I think that Ubuntu doesn't need to give people another gun to shoot
themselves in the foot.
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Dotan Cohen
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