Hey all this m$ noise come to the ears of a BSD evangelist and I can't resist :
I would say that the main problem (that also encounters slightly free OSes) is to help in user education. And m$ is the worst example. Vulnerable by default, not clear how to secure it, buggy patches, full trust to Redmont empire. Have you ever realized how much hacks we had to write in the networking code with a comment like : /* Some Windows machine send badly formed .... */ > indeed, if you do it, do it at the edge, the same place where you *should* > have your anti-spoofing filters ;) > > > If you do any kind of filtering please document it properly and publically > > so when some poor support guy is trying to find out why this-and-that > ain't > > working here but there isn't left out in the dark. > > good point, we'll add that. > > > Pascal > > ---------------------------------------------- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maillist-Archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/swinog%40swinog.ch/ -- Key fingerprint = 9CCC 1333 C4CA 6B1A 4FB0 8404 9282 67BE B0D8 64DE RFC822: [EMAIL PROTECTED] || [EMAIL PROTECTED] << www.NetBSD.org ---------------------------------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maillist-Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/swinog%40swinog.ch/
