Re: [SC-L] Re: White paper: Many Eyes - No Assurance Against Many Spies

2004-05-04 Thread Tad Anhalt
Crispin Cowan wrote: Ok, someone has mentioned Ken Thompson's Turing Award speech in a my security is better than yours flamewar^W discussion. This almost warrants a security-geek version of Godwin's law :) That's fine. I didn't bring it up, the original article did. I still do think

Re: [SC-L] Re: White paper: Many Eyes - No Assurance Against Many Spies

2004-04-30 Thread James Walden
Jeremy Epstein wrote: I agree with much of what he says about the potential for infiltration of bad stuff into Linux, but he's comparing apples and oranges. He's comparing a large, complex open source product to a small, simple closed source product. I claim that if you ignore the open/closed