Sendmail has been an important part of the Internet infrastructure and
has gained a lot of honour and respect. Many people use this piece of
software and a lot of distributors/vendors are proliferating this
software. They do deserve better, as do the users who decide to trust
this vendor.
Paul Vixie did not decide that BIND should become a critical part of
the internet, or that it became a virtual monoculture. He made it
free. The community decided to make it Internet infrastructure.
Eric Allman did not decide that BIND should become a critical part of
the internet, or that it became a virtual monoculture. He made it
free. The community decided to make it Internet infrastructure.
I did not decide that OpenSSH should become a critical part of the
internet, or that it should become a virtual monopoly. We made it
free. Again, the community decided to make it Internet infrastructure.
Now you want to tell us that because the Internet community made
decisions like these, that we should be held responsible. That we
have to follow YOUR procedures. That we have to answer to YOU.
What if we ignore your procedures? What if we say no? What will you
do then? Continue to verbally attack us? To what end? To show that
you are thankless dogs?