Re: [ILUG-BOM] Open source GPL use by government
Check this link in response to the ADTI report. http://online.securityfocus.com/news/473 Shankar - Original Message - From: Ashok Iyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 8:56 AM Subject: [ILUG-BOM] Open source GPL use by government Check this post on Slashdot. This PDF article, written by Kenneth Brown of ADTI, attempts to explain that Open source GPL use by government agencies could easily become a nation security concern. Government use of software in the public domain is exceptionally risky. http://www.adti.net/html_files/defense/old_opensource_whitepaper.pdf -- Ashok __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com ___ http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers ___ http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
[ILUG-BOM] Problem of Telnet , FTP Mutt Configuration
Dear Luggers, Hi ! Ive some problems regarding FTP, Telnet ,ISDN and Accessing mails in Mutt Mail client, which are elaborated as under. Ive installed RH Linux 7.2 on a machine. That machine is having the Local Area Network IP is = 192.168.0.1 Now from the machine having IP 192.168.0.2 I wants to Telnet the Linux machine, but it shows me an error The remote host refused connection. The same case is there in FTP. So n e body suggest me step by step configuration for accessing Telnet / FTP to Linux machine from my Windows PC. ? I m having mail account with VSNL. And I wants to access my mails of VSNL POP3 account in to the Linux Mail client like Mutt. So, how do I access it in Mutt/Pine etc ..? Apart from there n e body have the Idea to configure multiple POP3 as well as multiple SMTP servers like wat my friends were doing in MS-Outlook Express. Is there any mail client which allows the facility like MS-OE .? My friend is installed RH Linux 7.2 just last week. He is having ISDN connection for Internet as an alternative to his Cable Internet. So, how can he b able to configure his ISDN Connection on Linux system .? Plz. Suggest step by step configuration. Is thr n e body who can burn the CDs of FreeBSD for me ? I m also ready to pay the cost of the CDs. So, plz. Contact me Off the List for that matter. Lots of thanx to all Lugger Friends. Happy Linuxing. Regards, [Ashish Desai] = [Ashish Desai] __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com ___ http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
Re: [ILUG-BOM] Open source GPL use by government
On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Ashok Iyer wrote: This PDF article, written by Kenneth Brown of ADTI, attempts to explain that Open source GPL use by government agencies could easily become a nation security concern. Government use of software in the public domain is exceptionally risky. The article says that GPLed software is risky, but BSD style and public domain software is perfectly fine. In other words, open source software is perfectly safe, but requiring that anyone who makes changes and publishes binaries with those changes also make the changed source available, that is not safe. Explain how this makes sense? -- I THINK MAN INVENTED THE CAR by instinct. -- Jack Handley, The New Mexican, 1988. ___ http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
