On 10/6/06, Roger Filomeno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
More like its security by obscurity IMHO. I mean how can a close sourced system be evaluated if we cant even see the code. It may pass the standard/known vulnerability check but the developer must have missed something that is uniquely exploitable and wont be checked until some autistic script kiddie hacker hits it.
software used in these environments follow a very strict set of development and documentation rules. it starts very early in the design process long before a single line of code is written. most developers start with writing gazillion test programs specified by the governing body and then applied at regular intervals under very close watch by the governing body. some even run thousands of these tests once a week. the people of the governing body get to read the code. Its extreme programming and test driven development on steroids. I know MS or most of the other proprietary software company giants will not survive under that. Their engineers will resign under the strain. Open source on the other hand can. Its possible for an open source project to be that rigorous. Anybody wants to start an experiment?
On 10/6/06, Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Orlando Andico wrote: > > most "famous" open-source software clusters in the "above average" area. > > But the top rankers are all closed source. > > Is there any Open Source/Free Software that has the same kind of > reliability requirements as these proprietary software that is in the > top? Probably none, I imagine. Nobody writes Free Software to run > nuclear power plants or for the control systems for jet engines, so this > isn't really surprising. Comparing Free and Proprietary software with > similar reliability requirements (e.g. none) might be more realistic. > The software developers behind those programs have got massive economic > incentive to have absolutely reliable software, while the same incentive > is absent from nearly all Free Software out there, so this observation > isn't exactly surprising. > > By the way, how did Donald Knuth's TeX score there, I wonder? > > -- > Be the change that you want to see in the world. > http://stormwyrm.blogspot.com > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) > Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > -- -- MSG GODIE <YOUR MESSAGE> then send to 2948 for Globe/Sun and 3940 for Smart. Get yours FREE at www.TxtDomain.com -- Roger P. Filomeno Mobile Specialist / R&D Finger Apps Inc, http://fingerapps.com Blog: http://corruptedpartition.blogspot.com/ _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
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