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

[coldfire]

> 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?).

linux has backdoors?
microsoft .. entirely closed source software ... we're lucky as hell to
find backdoors in their software when and if we do ... you're not
concerned at all that there are a million other backdoors in microsoft's
software that we're not yet aware of?  i know i really don't think that's
right .. but since when does microsoft care about ethics.

abe