, 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)
Anonymous (1 replies)
Lots of points missed...
2003-11-26
Penguinisto (2 replies)
Penguinisto (2 replies)
Ending the Free Lunch
2003-11-27
Anonymous (2 replies)
Anonymous (2 replies)
Missed the point quite a bit
2003-11-28
Anonymous (1 replies)
Anonymous (1 replies)
If I paid you Hal, if I paid YOU, would you stop writing such assinine articles?
2003-11-29
Edward W. Ray
Edward W. Ray
Apple are building on a lot of BSD licenced code. Here it is in Apple's interest to return patches to the core code, so they don't have to live with the hassle of working in a branch. Sure Apple have plenty of code to maintain without adding to it patch by patch.
The branch would especially hurt when the maintainers release their own fix, which may well affect the same sections of code.
I think the whole article betrays a lack of understanding about who is writing free software, and who is patching it!!!!
The question would be "is Redhat's packaging mechanism really worth the extra money over Debian".
Redhat QA is pretty suspect in places I think, if I had a dollar for every problem fixed by setting LD_ASSUME_KERNEL.....
Regression testing is good........ Even is SpamAssassin only passed 98.7% last time I installed it.
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