[Info-vax] Problem with Filezilla connecting to OpenVMS

[Dave Froble]

On 12/6/2018 1:57 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2018-12-06, Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>>
>> Ya know, the real problem here, is dumb ass developers who cannot figure
>> out that perhaps there will be a time when a user just cannot use
>> encryption, and provide for an unencrypted option.  Oh, no, that's way
>> too reasonable.  Can't have that.
>>
>
> Actually, in many cases, you most certainly _cannot_ have that as either
> site security standards or local industry/government security standards
> outright ban the transmission of data via unencrypted means and maybe
> even via secure protocols which are now deemed to be too weak.
>
> If a VMS system can't operate in that environment, it's likely to get
> replaced with an operating system which _can_ operate in that environment.
>
> Simon.
>

Applications are what people use, not operating systems.  If your 
application requires a particular operating system, then you are going 
to use that operating system.  Everything else is secondary.

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