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On Thu, 9 May 2024, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
On Thu, 9 May 2024 11:29:13 +0200, D wrote:
>On Wed, 8 May 2024, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:>
>On Wed, 8 May 2024 11:53:57 +0200, D wrote:Because I thought that the private guy who hosted them ...
>A more senior consultant at that time, told me he always installed>
some private guys gnu utils on every AIX machine he administered.
Every seasoned Unix sysadmin had the tradition of doing that.
>I remember thinking that it did feel a bit insecure ...>
Why? Unix folks preferred the GNU tools because they tended to be of
higher quality than the vendor-proprietary stuff.
>
You could have got them from the FSF itself, and its list of reputable
mirrors. That was a thing in those days.
I could not, because it is in the past and therefore I cannot change
what happened. I was instructed to download it from that site and that
is on what what my personal anecdote rests.
What could or could not have been done is irrelevant to my story.
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