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Ending the Free Lunch
Hal Flynn, 2003-11-26

Linux vendors spend money building security bug fixes. How much longer will they give them away for free?

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Ending the Free Lunch 2003-11-26
Anonymous (1 replies)
The Cost of Ending the Free Lunch 2003-12-01
Anonymous (1 replies)
The Cost of Ending the Free Lunch 2003-12-06
Anonymous
Ending the Free Lunch 2003-11-26
Rob McQuillen
Lots of points missed... 2003-11-26
Penguinisto (2 replies)
Lots of points missed... 2003-12-01
Anonymous (1 replies)
Lots of points missed... 2003-12-01
Penguinisto
Lots of points missed... 2003-12-02
Anonymous (1 replies)
Lots of points missed... 2003-12-03
Penguinisto
There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch 2003-11-26
Anonymous
Ending the Free Lunch 2003-11-27
Anonymous Coward
Ending the Free Lunch 2003-11-27
Anonymous (2 replies)
Ending the Free Lunch 2003-11-28
Anonymous (1 replies)
Ending the Free Lunch 2003-12-01
Anonymous
Ending the Free Lunch 2003-11-28
Anonymous
Apple no, Suse sure 2003-11-27
groovecat
Ending the Free Lunch 2003-11-27
Anonymous
Ending the Free Lunch 2003-11-27
cowbutt
Does Microsoft or SCO supply Security Focus writers? 2003-11-27
Anonymous (2 replies)
Does Microsoft or SCO supply Security Focus writers? 2003-11-27
picklepak
Does Microsoft or SCO supply Security Focus writers? 2003-11-29
Anonymous
Ending the Free Lunch 2003-11-27
Anonymous (2 replies)
Huh? 2003-11-28
OCG (2 replies)
Huh? 2003-11-30
Anonymous (1 replies)
Huh? 2003-12-01
Anonymous
Huh? 2003-11-30
Anonymous
Ending the Free Lunch 2003-11-29
Anonymous (2 replies)
Ending the Free Lunch 2003-12-02
trips
HEEE HEEE 2003-12-02
Anonymous
I'll cook the free lunch; I'll provide the meat, you provide the vegetable 2003-11-27
picklepak
Filet Mignon 2003-11-28
Tomothy Millen
Missed the point quite a bit 2003-11-28
Anonymous (1 replies)
Missed the point quite a bit 2003-12-01
Anonymous (1 replies)
Missed the point quite a bit 2003-12-02
Anonymous
Ending the Free Lunch 2003-11-28
Anonymous (1 replies)
Ending the Free Lunch 2003-12-02
Anonymous
If I paid you Hal, if I paid YOU, would you stop writing such assinine articles? 2003-11-29
Edward W. Ray
UH? 2003-11-30
Tripper
Bah. Security-Fixes for Enterprise-Linux have never been free 2003-11-30
Anonymous
e.g., SuSE has a quasi-subscription-model in their Enterprise-products line, called "maintainence":

- paid yearly
- you get access to the site where the patches are hosted
- you get support (it's not bad actually)
- while your maintainance is running, you can upgrade to the next version of the product, when it becomes available. But you don't have to.
The upgrade comes with no additional cost.

Security Fixes for FreeBSD, Debian et.al were free last time I looked, though.
So the article is a bit of an over-generalisation, IMHO.


cheers



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So wrong..... 2003-12-01
jmorris@beau.org
This article is a trollbait, and FUD too 2003-12-01
Anonymous
GPL - simple really 2003-12-01
Anonymous (1 replies)
GPL - simple really 2003-12-03
Anonymous
wrong 2003-12-01
Anonymous
Freedom, not Freeness 2003-12-01
Frihet
Ending the Free Lunch 2003-12-01
esjatharvee
Ending the Free Lunch 2003-12-01
Joseph Smith
Ending the Free Lunch 2003-12-01
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Ending the Free Lunch 2003-12-07
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Ending the Free Lunch 2003-12-01
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Ending the Free Lunch 2003-12-01
Anonymous (1 replies)
Ending the Free Lunch 2003-12-02
Anonymous
Who actually fixes bugs? 2003-12-01
Anonymous (1 replies)
Who actually fixes bugs? 2003-12-03
Anonymous
Ending the Free Lunch 2003-12-01
Z2
Ending the Free Lunch (IT reporting) 2003-12-01
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Ending the Free Lunch (IT reporting) 2003-12-01
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Jouro-Lobbiest 2003-12-01
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Ending the Free Lunch - References? 2003-12-01
Anymouse
Ending the Free Lunch 2003-12-02
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Ending the Free Lunch 2003-12-02
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Ending the Free Lunch 2003-12-02
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Ending the Free Lunch 2003-12-04
Anonymous
Lame article 2003-12-05
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Ending the Free Lunch 2003-12-05
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