From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 15 18:13:30 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (unknown [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35E47106566C; Fri, 15 Jun 2012 18:13:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from utisoft@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bk0-f54.google.com (mail-bk0-f54.google.com [209.85.214.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E2BB8FC08; Fri, 15 Jun 2012 18:13:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bkvi18 with SMTP id i18so3228420bkv.13 for ; Fri, 15 Jun 2012 11:13:28 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=97fuNNVe/JHpmPNd+MWEmBOM1qrnGHYS938AsyJU+6o=; b=tbojus93qMxvPlX9G16REQMO4GsbzvJQlxTsQ7lUsz0bE0ohSA9hzbdCg+jWEyO0jk NEkDF2vIsAW/NDoCEXG/MPY2oLCyRbgcwmq4U94swkLzpx4u44CMZfeAk8f4kxAqtxbe /f/IvqUj+gR4dBS0zTGKexnKGNHY1EMXQ5S8IT23b9W1gMT7/i6InLjMx5t/Y1hQ1pXI p+wkuWOorj8xU2WVMyRecG8CyC/6D2bhbLOTbeOFjvGrwORoVcGJfUEDd8tqhRbuyPZu En6cnj1Hac7SvPQUNuTZejGZPpUVfn5GnoDnDGgetxW16TAhTEvQL3MoqH5wdx7v7MCn E3sA== Received: by 10.204.145.89 with SMTP id c25mr3349596bkv.5.1339784008517; Fri, 15 Jun 2012 11:13:28 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: utisoft@gmail.com Received: by 10.204.171.138 with HTTP; Fri, 15 Jun 2012 11:12:58 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4FDB7698.2010207@gthcfoundation.org> References: <20120615130839.2bbb9d51@scorpio> <4FDB7698.2010207@gthcfoundation.org> From: Chris Rees Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 19:12:58 +0100 X-Google-Sender-Auth: uPvkRyUuEwk2NK7geo9mkuALuAw Message-ID: To: erob@gthcfoundation.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Hans Petter Selasky Subject: Re: FreeBSD not so free anymore ? Long live FreeBSD... X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 18:13:30 -0000 On 15 June 2012 18:53, Etienne Robillard wrote: > On 06/15/2012 01:08 PM, Jerry wrote: >> >> Skype 4.0 for Linux is now available. Is there any possibility of >> getting it ported to FreeBSD? The latest version in ports is only >> 2.x. > > > > Why not? Thinking FreeBSD could become immune to remote exploits is absur= d. > > So without much efforts =A0I can guess ports like Skype will become more > widespread now that FreeBSD has gived up on network security, preferring = to > announce critical security vulnerabilities once the exploit has been > confirmed without any warnings. > > A good reason to stop using this bloated OS if you ask me and use > something more respectful to their users base relaying on STABLE for > stability reasons... > New versions of Skype require ALSA. This is at their insistence. Chris