<div dir="ltr">Well, consider that Mint was made because some people didn't like the directions Canonical was taking Ubuntu, so perhaps the mindset at the Mint "office" is "we're not Canonical, so we're going to avoid becoming a big company like Canonical". That's just conjecture on my part, mind you. Nevertheless I can't help but wonder if they reason they don't have proper management at Mint is because they are deliberately avoiding the idea of becoming a big company?<div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, 24 Feb 2016 at 12:30 Khalid Baheyeldin <<a href="mailto:kb@2bits.com">kb@2bits.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>I am not questioning intentions. Good intentions on their own are not enough. And I am not commenting on skill or expertise. <br><br>Specifically, the big issues that the incidents at hand uncovered are:<br><br></div>- Being silent about a hack that copied user data for a month.<br></div><div>- Not providing kernel updates<br></div><div>- Not publishing CVE information<br><br></div><div>This could all be oversight, but in the end it puts users in danger.<br></div><div><br></div><div>The prudent action by any user is to find an alternative, regardless of what the details are.<br></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 12:20 PM, Bob Jonkman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bjonkman@sobac.com" target="_blank">bjonkman@sobac.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>It's all well and good to say Free Software projects must be managed to professional SysAdmin standards, but how many people have contributed towards that goal? As far as I know, Clem is the only person actively working on that project, and he openly publishes the donations he receives: <a href="http://linuxmint.com/donors.php" target="_blank">http://linuxmint.com/donors.php</a> It looks substantial, but when you subtract the costs of running the site there's not much left over for food and shelter.<span><font color="#888888"><br>
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<div dir="ltr">And the forum database was hacked and sold a full month before they announced they were hacked.<br><br>Very disappointing to see a popular free software project being mismanaged that way, with no proper updates.<br><br><a href="http://news.softpedia.com/news/linux-mint-forum-database-compromised-for-at-least-a-month-before-announcement-500901.shtml" target="_blank">http://news.softpedia.com/news/linux-mint-forum-database-compromised-for-at-least-a-month-before-announcement-500901.shtml</a><br></div>
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