Comment 13 for bug 382938

Sorry to bring up a 4 month old topic, but I wouldn't want to see ufw enabled by default without a proper discussion.

I've previously managed servers (both real and virtual) remotely and if installing ufw meant that the firewall suddenly went up, I might lose my remote connection to the servers. For me, that would be a disaster...

And, I'm not sure if separating ufw into a desktop version and a server version is worthwhile.

Comment #3 from 2010 about having it enabled by default may be one OS' way of taking the marketshare. I'm not convinced it's done for the user's sake. On a Windows machine, I purchased another program to manage my firewall, but I still get reminders about not having the Microsoft firewall brought up. If it was for my protection, then the existence of a firewall by another vendor should remove the Microsoft firewall (and its reminders) completely...