On Thursday 13 November 2003 12:11, Boaz Rymland wrote: > In short - there is a weak point in the openness model. it is greatly > acknowledged and treated hence achieving a better security model. Don't > be impressed by the publicity it gets - you just dont hear of such cases > in closed source organizations.
I wouldn't call it a weaknes in the openess model, maybe a weakness in the PR case of open source. The problem exists in both closed and open software, it's just that open source software cannot hide it. Therefore: a. It's visible. b. Open Source software put in place to handle the issue, as much as it can be handled. The interesting question (for me, at least) is: "are we doing a good job of handling the problem?" My feeling about the answer is that we are doing a terrible job, but it's still better then closed source software which are simply denying the problem exists and doing nothing, because they can get away with it. Gilad -- Gilad Ben-Yossef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Codefidence. A name you can trust (tm) http://www.codefidence.com "Half of one of my eyes is already open. I'm going to make coffee now..." -- Kathi 16:08:04 ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
