[techtalk] Eric Raymond, MS security, and open source..

Conor Daly conor.daly at oceanfree.net
Tue May 15 23:42:32 EST 2001


On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 08:16:51PM -0500 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
Daniel Manrique thought:
> 
> <SARCASM>
> However, I don't see why they make such a big fuss about it; after all,
> Linux has backdoors too so there's no difference between them.
> </SARCASM>

'cos you can find and close the backdoors with open source stuff (or was
that irony above?).

Conor
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