On Wed Nov 03, 2004 at 22:13:14 +1100, O Plameras wrote: > > >To be honest, I prefer to trust one rather than trust so many.
But who is there to trust with the Linux kernel? There is not one person there, there is a *lot* of people contributing. And Linus doesn't read every line of code in Linux. >Besides, I know precisely who to blame if my business or >customer got hacked. Who? Yourself? If you use a vendor kernel you can blame the vendor. Who in theory, is at least an entity that can be blamed (I would say sued but IANAL, and don't really want to get into an argument over wether you can sue for buggy code). With the Linux kernel there is noone to blame. And if you *change* the kernel (i.e: by removing code), then the only person left to blame is yourself. Now, you might be happy with that responsibility, so I guess that is fine. In any case, I know I'd trust the Redhat kernel team over myself anyday, but I guess you are more expereince at this kernel hacking stuff than me. Benno -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
