On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 09:56:58AM +0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In contrast to your belief, open source software is _much more_ secure
> than closed ones. Thousands of hackers are scrutinizing every line of
> your code, whenever they find anything they announce the discovery as
> loudly as they can (this is a _man_ thing I guess), they know if they
> don't, someone else will take the credit. Also you get the fixes more
> quickly. In closed source, a hacker will tend to shut his mouth and
> exploit the bug. Worse, when the bug gets public, the producer will do
> nothing until a commercially sizeable users start yelling. Only then
> will they move like a slow elephant to look into the matter, meanwhile
> ... he got in, took/done, got out.
IMHO Eric S. Raymond's thesis/essay "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" is
a _highly recommended further reading on the Open V. Closed approaches
to software development...
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Darren Rees [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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