From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 5 Aug 2001 10:18:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 5 Aug 2001 10:18:28 -0400 Received: from weta.f00f.org ([203.167.249.89]:44176 "EHLO weta.f00f.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 5 Aug 2001 10:18:24 -0400 Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 02:19:17 +1200 From: Chris Wedgwood To: asmith@14inverleith.freeserve.co.uk Cc: szonyi calin , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: (OT) university studies? Message-ID: <20010806021917.C21919@weta.f00f.org> In-Reply-To: <20010803143201.76293.qmail@web13903.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.20i X-No-Archive: Yes Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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