While it would be inappropriate to repeat a historical flaming, my feeling is that it was a real nuisance to take a potentially useful feature which people were innocently (ab)using - it was abruptly removed without any simple migration path. I understand that disabling schema-checking would be a foolish thing to do in a conventional LDAP application (e.g. NIS), but many people use openldap for casual or experimental purposes for which it is very convenient to allow an "anything-goes" strategy.
--Quanah
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