Tim Scanlon wrote: > dclarke wrote: > "minor nit. Solaris is not open source." > > Solaris still gets code reviews by government agencies to preclude this sort > of OS back door though, as does every other major OS in use by the US & > international governments to preclude this sort of activity from happening. > >
I see no reason why I should count on a *government* code review to protect me from a *government* back door!!!! That's setting the fox to watch the henhouse! They review for their *own* purposes, which is fine, but that review applies only to the goals they're reviewing against and the version reviewed, and I would have to take the first on faith. The fact that people can review bits of Solaris themselves makes me feel better, though. Few of us have the time or skills to go through *all* of it (most especially the time!); but people look here and there as they do other things, or just from curiosity, and investigate or report strange things they find, and that's some protection. On the third hand, people concerned about this sort of thing should familiarize themselves with Ken Thompson's 1983 Turing Award lecture. -- David Dyer-Bennet, [EMAIL PROTECTED]; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http://dragaera.info _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
