Re: server and client in one package -> security issue

[Hartmut Goebel]

Am 14.02.2017 um 10:16 schrieb Danny Milosavljevic:
> I don't think Guix should do that, though. 

I think guix should provide the tools for doing so. Guix has the big
advantage of providing trustworthy packages, but kicks itself out of the
race if hardening is so much complicated.

> IMO locking down everything for users is basically the antithesis of the FSF.

The "user" is the company, the employees work on behalf of the company.
So the software freedom has to be available toe the company not to the
individual employee.

As a company I'm expecting the user to *not* install software on their
computers (not talking about developers here). Otherwise its like
allowing workers to bring their own hammer to the building site or their
own machines into the factory building. If the hammer is inappropriate
and is deforming all nails, or the machine is producing scrap, the
company the the one bear the consequences.


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Hartmut Goebel

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