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Open-Source Security Comes Under Fire - Its Obvious

Tue, 26 Nov 2002 15:48:33 -0500

Thanks for the info. I had different experience with Suse. ...

Open-Source Security Comes Under Fire - Its Obvious

Tue, 26 Nov 2002 13:17:32 -0500

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What This Report Ignores

Tue, 26 Nov 2002 09:06:49 -0500

This report ignores the primary security advantage of Linux (and Unix) over Windows, which is that a production system can be "hardened" by disabling the various vulnerable services. This just isn't possible with Windows, due to lack of...

Open-Source Security Comes Under Fire

Tue, 26 Nov 2002 08:13:33 -0500

I think we can mostly conclude that open source is...

Open-Source Security Comes Under Fire

Tue, 26 Nov 2002 07:54:13 -0500

This is such a stupid argument. I mean, if you analyze anything - and I mean anything - you make it come under fire. It's just how big the flame is. In this case, the flame is fairly small. I don't see why the article has make it appear to be much...

Open-Source Security Comes Under Fire

Mon, 25 Nov 2002 19:34:44 -0500

My question is when are we going to find out that MS funded this study?

Open-Source Security Comes Under Fire

Mon, 25 Nov 2002 18:57:30 -0500

The article ignores a few important facts:...

liars, cheats , parasites and analysts

Mon, 25 Nov 2002 18:40:33 -0500

It surprises me that we still take reports from these so-called-analyst firms seriously. What makes these firms analysts ? Their analysis is nothing more than a subjective interpretation based on insufficient expertise and always greased by big...

Open-Source Security Comes Under Fire

Mon, 25 Nov 2002 17:56:54 -0500

Aberdeen Group is no different than other for-profit "research groups". Their findings are, not surprisingly, often reflective of what they were paid to find....

Open-Source Security Comes Under Fire - Its Obvious

Mon, 25 Nov 2002 17:26:47 -0500

I agree to some extent. And if you READ the article fine, its not comparing MS vs. any other o/s , its just saying MS has these many holes, linux has these many holes. Its not taking any side. ...

Open-Source Security Comes Under Fire

Mon, 25 Nov 2002 16:31:14 -0500

You have to compare it in terms of how complex the softwared is. There are lots of open source projects out there, but do they compare in terms complexity to that of ms.So it is simply not an inssue of ratio but one of complexity. Ms builds complex...

Open-Source Security Comes Under Fire

Mon, 25 Nov 2002 15:56:51 -0500

This seems like a flawed comparison to me, I mean I don't really care, not really siding iwth either camp, but it seems like by the sheer number of open source products, I mean how many flavors of Linux are out there, not to mention the number of...

Open-Source Security Comes Under Fire

Mon, 25 Nov 2002 14:53:07 -0500

What would be more telling is the number of product updates / security fixes. Of course a product would have less flaws if it takes 1 year to update.

Open-Source Security Comes Under Fire

Mon, 25 Nov 2002 14:51:45 -0500

Since most of the Open source is not owned by a single RESPONSIBLE company, its bound to have problems like several users have several different versions, some have patches -some dont, some thing works on 1 version - the same thing doesnt on the other...

Open-Source Security Comes Under Fire

Mon, 25 Nov 2002 14:48:25 -0500

I also consider another aspect of security - how many people would want to break your security?...