Nick Rout wrote:
On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 21:51, steve wrote:
Nick Rout wrote:
On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 21:16, InfoHelp wrote:
I read the thread - it proves my point.
Unchanged uname means an fsck-lot more than your anti-RMS vendetta.
what does an unpatched uname mean and what is the point?
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Unpatched means download the source, compile, run. Patched has an edit or 2 in between. I've used it as a ''security'' measure in the past to return a non-sensical id string from apache to confuse the script kiddies.
I know what unpatched means, I wanted to know why Rik thought it was significant in the current context.
Steve
Maybe something about GPL, and the right to change source as long as ...?
