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2003 Linux Timeline: February2003 Linux Timeline: FebruaryPosted Mar 8, 2007 22:15 UTC (Thu) by k8to (subscriber, #15413)In reply to: 2003 Linux Timeline: February by Tadu Parent article: 2003 Linux Timeline: February
The spat may have been over reasonable grievances, but mICQ _was_ trojaned to fail on Debian. It was trojaned in such a way that the normal debian build procedures would produce a non-working program, although all the programs produced in the development phase would work fine. For details, see this discussion: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/02/msg01078.html therefore: FACT: mICQ was trojaned to fail on Debian
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2003 Linux Timeline: February Posted Mar 9, 2007 16:52 UTC (Fri) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link] "mICQ was trojaned to fail on Debian"
Well, mICQ's author inserted code to make the Debian maintainer look like a boob (and it worked!). Using the word "trojan" to describe this is a little strong, don't you think? While it may technically be correct, it almost certainly gives the reader the wrong impression. mICQ's author certainly did NOT have the same motives as 99.9% of trojan writers, and the outcome was totally different too.
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