Incoming from Matt Zimmerman: > On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 09:12:42PM -0700, s. keeling wrote: > > > Incoming from Matt Zimmerman: > > > On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 02:24:42PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > > > > > > > You don't. Tough luck, of course, but that's the price for running > > > > affordable, off-the-shelf software (free or proprietary). > > > > > > You seem to imply that one is better off with a proprietary software vendor. > > > > I think you mis-read him Matt. Note the "free or proprietary." > > > > He's saying you can go with commercial software, and fixes may take > > months. Or go with Open Source, and fixes may take (eg.) weeks. In > > either case, you will have to wait. > > Note the "affordable, off-the-shelf". The implication being that if you pay > more to a proprietary software vendor (and they typically are more > expensive), then you'll be better off security-wise.
Well, I've bought "affordable, off-the-shelf" software; my first Debian install arrived on CDs from InfoMagic (whatever happened to them?). I'm pretty sure I paid more in shipping than I paid for the disks but it was well worth it to me. This go 'round, Libranet got my money. Still well worth it. I'm still here. :-) -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling - - -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
