[Openicc] Fedora CM, was: Google Summer of Code . . .

[Alexandre Prokoudine]

On 5/21/10, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:

> This an interesting perception of things.  Based on this, libjpeg
> should not have been used since it lacked maintainership for 11 years.
> Regardless, hundreds of millions of computers did not seem to care
> about the lack of maintainership.

Just like hundreds of millions of people do not seem to care about
freedom. If a lot of people do something, it doesn't mean it's right.

> Some other quite heavily used libraries also see minimal maintenance.

*sigh*

Can you recall zlib vulnerability of 2002? All binary packages based
distributions had to rebuild a whole lot of packages in a hurry
because zlib was compromised. Would you really want to rely on
software that does not provide centralized fixes in such cases? And
libjpeg *was* compromised. Can you see difference between "want" and
"was forced to" at all?

Alexandre