Re: [swinog] open source illusions (was: Hot Red Flames (Was: IRC Server dead ?))
Tonnerre Lombard wrote: Salut, Per, On Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:01:24 +0200, Per Jessen wrote: fixing something yourself is also pretty much an illusion, except for those few people who are sufficiently involved. When have you last _had_ to fix anything yourself in a stable release of any open source project? Being a member of the security scene, I write patches for Open Source software almost every day. And what about you? I am 99% an open source _user_, and I have only written very few patches. Which proves my point, I think. /Per Jessen, Herrliberg ___ swinog mailing list swinog@lists.swinog.ch http://lists.swinog.ch/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/swinog
[swinog] open source illusions (was: Hot Red Flames (Was: IRC Server dead ?))
Tonnerre Lombard wrote: I think that the advantage of Open Source does indeed lie in the fact that you have the ability to fix things yourself, Hi Tonnerre fixing something yourself is also pretty much an illusion, except for those few people who are sufficiently involved. When have you last _had_ to fix anything yourself in a stable release of any open source project? /Per Jessen, Herrliberg ZH ___ swinog mailing list swinog@lists.swinog.ch http://lists.swinog.ch/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/swinog
Re: [swinog] open source illusions (was: Hot Red Flames (Was: IRC Server dead ?))
Salut, Per, On Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:01:24 +0200, Per Jessen wrote: fixing something yourself is also pretty much an illusion, except for those few people who are sufficiently involved. When have you last _had_ to fix anything yourself in a stable release of any open source project? Being a member of the security scene, I write patches for Open Source software almost every day. And what about you? Tonnerre signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ swinog mailing list swinog@lists.swinog.ch http://lists.swinog.ch/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/swinog
Re: [swinog] open source illusions (was: Hot Red Flames (Was: IRC Server dead ?))
* on the Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 02:01:24PM +0200, Per Jessen wrote: fixing something yourself is also pretty much an illusion, except for those few people who are sufficiently involved. When have you last _had_ to fix anything yourself in a stable release of any open source project? We've found bugs in just about everything we use. FreeBSD kernel, libc, apache-modules, pdns, nfs, and so on. And we fix them if we have the source. We're not involved in any of those projects. Cheers Seegras -- Those who give up essential liberties for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin It's also true that those who would give up privacy for security are likely to end up with neither. -- Bruce Schneier ___ swinog mailing list swinog@lists.swinog.ch http://lists.swinog.ch/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/swinog
