On Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 12:32:59PM +0100, asmith@14inverleith.freeserve.co.uk wrote:
When you posted your initial message I thought you were thinking
of software. Windows products are I believe full of bugs
basically because the source is not available for scrutiny.
Bah! I wish open-source advocates would leave this alone or at least
qualify things a bit better.
Yes, code scrutiny is often a good thing, but it doesn't make your
code bug free necessarily. Sendmail and bind are good examples here
of code that is (was) widely deployed, had many eyes on it --- and yet
sucked in terrible ways :)
Plenty of other 'available source' packages have had nasties, such as
wu-ftpd, mutt, pine, lynx and nntpcache.
Every now and then (like once or twice a year), someone finds a nasty
in Linux too....
--cw
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