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Given these (large, important, worrying...) issues, maybe it is best
if the Mint team focused their resources on the Cinnamon desktop and
other useful contributions they have made to the community and get
out of the distro business.<br>
Now that Cinnamon is available on Debian and Ubuntu (and others), I
am not sure what the motivation is for maintaining a full-blown
distro.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 02/24/2016 12:29 PM, Khalid
Baheyeldin wrote:<br>
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<div>I am not questioning intentions. Good intentions on their
own are not enough. And I am not commenting on skill or
expertise. <br>
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Specifically, the big issues that the incidents at hand
uncovered are:<br>
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- Being silent about a hack that copied user data for a month.<br>
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<div>- Not providing kernel updates<br>
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<div>- Not publishing CVE information<br>
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<div>This could all be oversight, but in the end it puts users
in danger.<br>
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<div>The prudent action by any user is to find an alternative,
regardless of what the details are.<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 12:20 PM, Bob
Jonkman <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:bjonkman@sobac.com" target="_blank">bjonkman@sobac.com</a>></span>
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<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 moz-do-not-send="true"
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 class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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--Bob.<br>
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<div class="h5">On February 24, 2016 12:06:14 PM EST,
Khalid Baheyeldin <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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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>
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Very disappointing to see a popular free
software project being mismanaged that way, with
no proper updates.<br>
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