Torvalds on Linux Security, Masturbating Monkeys, Whores and Idiots
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Linus Torvalds is a Finnish born software engineer best known for two things: kick starting the development of the Linux kernel, and owning the Linux trademark. Actually, make that three things. Torvalds has recently become very well known for speaking his mind...
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Unfortunately, his appetite for plain speaking might not have actually helped soothe the wounds which his previous masturbating monkeys remarks appear to have caused within some parts of the IT community. Certainly, explaining that people who revel in exposing vendor security holes "because they see that as just another proof that the vendors are corrupt and crap" and then adding "which admittedly mostly are" will not help much. Nor will suggesting that whether you assume this position or that of the nondisclosure camp, both are "whoring themselves out for their own reasons" and participating in PR posturing. Full Story |
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