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From: David Newall <davidn@davidnewall.com>
To: Cheradenine Zakalwe <sc.contact@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: The state of linux security
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 02:08:36 +0930	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <487E240C.9000800@davidnewall.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <67b4e5f30807160905n224a7808tf346dd4d506edd25@mail.gmail.com>

Cheradenine Zakalwe wrote:
> If the attitudes of the people at the top of linux development don't
> change this is the end of the linux experiment for me and i'm sure
> many other people.  The percieved benifits of transparancy, openness
> and cost will have been completely smashed for the vast majority of
> users.  This is not something to be taken lightly.

There is a project which is seriously concerned about security as well
as open source, and it's name is OpenBSD.  Not a popular observation to
make in some parts, I know, but true none-the-less.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-07-16 16:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-16 16:05 Cheradenine Zakalwe
2008-07-16 16:26 ` Randy Dunlap
2008-07-16 16:38 ` david
2008-07-16 16:38 ` David Newall [this message]
2008-07-16 17:57 ` Alan Cox
2008-07-16 20:08 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2008-07-16 20:29 ` Stefan Roas
2008-07-20 11:01 ` Helge Hafting

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