On 23/10/14 10:28, Ganesh Ranganathan wrote: > On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 2:47 PM, Vikas Tara <[email protected]> wrote: > >> FOSS chest beating doesn't help the scenario. > > It's not chest thumping at all. Bugs are found in all software - whether > free or proprietary. To write bug free code is not possible at all, what is > important is to make sure bugs are addressed promptly. The original poster said "at least we know when they are fixed". I'm pretty sure MS and Apple write release notes with their security fixes. > > But Open Source software is far more transparent in handling the security > issues and the patches are issued within days of a vulnerability being > discovered. Agreed, this is for sure the no. 1 advantage we should all be pointing to.
The speed at which we we're able to patch against shell shock is worthy of credit. _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-guidelines
