Back in the early 70's I worked for The University of Oklahoma. One of our systems programmers who had to much free time liked to look over the MVS source code. Whenever he found a security hole he would open an APAR with IBM. During the 5 or 6 years I worked with him he opened about 400 APARs. The reason MVS is so bullet proof is because of people like him.
Stephen Frazier Oklahoma Department of Corrections -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Phil Payne Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 11:16 AM To: Linux on 390 Port Subject: Re: Re: Microsoft Takes a Break to Clean Its Code If I think back to the early days of MVS development, roughly one APAR in twenty had some sort of security implication. Think how many there have been over the years and how many lines of code there are in MVS - and MVS's interfaces were carefully defined and architected. A LOT of Microsoft's interfaces are deliberate holes built across systems to expedite shipment of some feature or other. One of the aspects of open source software that I suspect truly frightens Microsoft is the continual peer reviewing that goes on. Published and thus criticised code is the strongest of all.
