On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 09:12:42PM -0700, s. keeling wrote: > Incoming from Matt Zimmerman: > > On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 02:24:42PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > > > > > You don't. Tough luck, of course, but that's the price for running > > > affordable, off-the-shelf software (free or proprietary). > > > > You seem to imply that one is better off with a proprietary software vendor. > > I think you mis-read him Matt. Note the "free or proprietary." > > He's saying you can go with commercial software, and fixes may take > months. Or go with Open Source, and fixes may take (eg.) weeks. In > either case, you will have to wait.
Note the "affordable, off-the-shelf". The implication being that if you pay more to a proprietary software vendor (and they typically are more expensive), then you'll be better off security-wise. -- - mdz
