On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 01:20:09 +0200, Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 04:59:36PM -0600, Jones wrote: >>Positive press for Debian's security team. >> >>Using numbers from a pair of metrics, Forrester Research's >>recommendation was "businesses that value quick patches look to >>Microsoft and Debian". > > That's positive? They put us in the same category as Microsoft! This > will lose us some serious street cred. :) >
Microsoft got good marks for releasing a patch soon after they announce a vulnerability. Never mind if said vulnerability was known about and pointed out to MS 6 months ago. Acccording to FR, the clock only started when MS made the announcement of it. -- Jim Richardson http://www.eskimo.com/~warlock A bureaucracy is like a septic tank -- all the really big shits float to the top.
