From: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
To: asmith@14inverleith.freeserve.co.uk
Cc: szonyi calin <caszonyi@yahoo.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: (OT) university studies?
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 02:19:17 +1200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010806021917.C21919@weta.f00f.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010803143201.76293.qmail@web13903.mail.yahoo.com> <Pine.LNX.4.33.0108051222530.14422-100000@vtrl22.vtrl.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0108051222530.14422-100000@vtrl22.vtrl.co.uk>
On Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 12:32:59PM +0100, asmith@14inverleith.freeserve.co.uk wrote:
When you posted your initial message I thought you were thinking
of software. Windows products are I believe full of bugs
basically because the source is not available for scrutiny.
Bah! I wish open-source advocates would leave this alone or at least
qualify things a bit better.
Yes, code scrutiny is often a good thing, but it doesn't make your
code bug free necessarily. Sendmail and bind are good examples here
of code that is (was) widely deployed, had many eyes on it --- and yet
sucked in terrible ways :)
Plenty of other 'available source' packages have had nasties, such as
wu-ftpd, mutt, pine, lynx and nntpcache.
Every now and then (like once or twice a year), someone finds a nasty
in Linux too....
--cw
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-08-05 14:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-08-01 5:22 peter revill
2001-08-01 7:06 ` Riley Williams
2001-08-01 11:46 ` Erik Mouw
2001-08-01 14:12 ` Ian Stirling
2001-08-01 19:31 ` Anders Peter Fugmann
2001-08-02 7:24 ` Riley Williams
2001-08-02 8:48 ` Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
2001-08-02 11:36 ` Muzaffer Ozakca
2001-08-02 15:45 ` Crutcher Dunnavant
2001-08-02 17:12 ` Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
2001-08-02 15:42 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-08-02 18:13 ` Brad Stewart
2001-08-02 18:23 ` Alan Cox
2001-08-02 18:46 ` J . A . Magallon
2001-08-03 10:05 ` Matthew Gardiner
2001-08-03 10:51 ` szonyi calin
2001-08-03 13:02 ` asmith
2001-08-03 14:32 ` szonyi calin
2001-08-05 11:32 ` asmith
2001-08-05 14:09 ` szonyi calin
2001-08-05 14:19 ` Chris Wedgwood [this message]
2001-08-06 10:05 ` Sean Hunter
2001-08-02 3:39 ` Rik van Riel
2001-08-02 8:26 ` David Weinehall
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