On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 02:39:25PM -0500, Dave Sill wrote:
> >So has any expert ever audited qmail or djbdns?
> 
> No. Any audit worth doing would be prohibitively expensive for a
> freeware project. $1000 wouldn't even begin to cover it, at least for
> qmail.

Not to mention that the whole point of freeware and open source software in
general is to give everyone the ability to audit the software, not just a
select few.  It sounds like the author of this book is a M$-type weenie.

--Adam

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