We (that is, the open source community) have an unfair advantage:
we don't have to support any of our patches if we don't want to.
This removes a lot of inhibitions ;-) It's pretty powerful.
Karl Runge
On Fri, 19 May 2000, Benjamin Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> While looking for information on the "NewLove" variant of the LoveLetter
> worm, I came across this page on Microsoft's site:
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/policy.asp
>
> I quote:
> No vendor can develop security patches overnight.
>
> That's pretty significant, since in many cases, Open Source Software *does*
> have security patches developed overnight. In fact, they often don't take
> that long. Patches for over-sized IP datagrams appeared in less then *two
> hours* for Linux. It took Microsoft more like a month to release their
> patches.
>
> So, there you have it. Direct from the horse's mouth. Microsoft admits
> Linux fixes security bugs faster then they can.
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