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haha, no Talkbacks posted

Story: Open source renders patching a problemTotal Replies: 5
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tuxchick

Nov 18, 2005
3:09 PM EST 		They usually get Talkbacks up quickly. I wonder if they got only negative ones, and are ignoring them.
sbergman27

Nov 18, 2005
4:16 PM EST 		Tuxchick, Tuxchick.... "http://insight.zdnet.co.uk" runs Linux/Apache. ( http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http://insight.z... ) It is more likely that they are too busy pouring over the source code and rolling their own security patches to post the talkbacks. You know how open-source vendors are. Once they've got your money for the initial purchase they don't care about you anymore. With OSS, its all about the purchase. And service doesn't really matter.

Look at the two most popular Linux distros: SLS and Yggdrasil. Neither one provides an automated patch management system, whereas Microsoft has had that feature for years.

OSS has a lot of catching up to do if they want to match Microsoft's security record.

Before sending me angry flames, please stop and consider that I'm not advocating that we replace Open-Source software with Microsoft. But we really do need to introduce some 3rd party proprietary security solutions into Linux distros to fix the problems.
sbergman27

Nov 18, 2005
6:13 PM EST 		Tom Aldestein asked:

> Is this a joke or what?

Yes. :-)

No one has sent me angry flames. The author of the original article made a plea for us not to send them. He was obviously expecting some...
tuxchick

Nov 18, 2005
6:22 PM EST 		I understand SCO is innovating some global-solution patch managers for Linux.
helios

Nov 19, 2005
3:58 PM EST 		understand SCO is innovating some global-solution patch managers for Linux. .....

Did they get any of the code from sony?
tuxchick

Nov 21, 2005
8:06 AM EST 		Still no Talkbacks posted. What lamers.

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