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Time for Open-Source to Grow Up
Jon Lasser, 2002-08-07

The OpenSSH backdoor demonstrates that the community must get pragmatic about package verification, and fast.

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Time for Open-Source to Grow Up 2002-08-09
Anonymous

"To add GNU Privacy Guard or another signature-checking tool to the base operating system will always be controversial to software purists who want to keep Unix just like it was when they first logged onto a PDP/11 in 1979."

purist: n : someone who insists on great precision and correctness
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