* Marc Espie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-07-17 01:19:59]: > On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 07:47:54PM +0100, Nuno Magalhces wrote: > > Eheh he's right :-) If you guys get your heads out of your asses and > > actually read his words with the use of some common sense you might > > get what he means. It's a balanced opinion. > > > > It's a totally misinformed opinion. > > Quoting > >In fact, all the boring normal bugs are _way_ more important, just because > >there's a lot more of them. I don't think some spectacular security hole > >should be glorified or cared about as being any more "special" than a > >random spectacular crash due to bad locking. > > which is exactly what people in the OpenBSD project do, all the time (fix > normal bugs). That's the proactive approach to security: don't wait until > you have an exploit, just fix the darn bug. > > So, when he tries to say that the OpenBSD crowd has a different attitude, > I don't know who he's referring to, but certainly not me. > > I don't think you have any idea how hard we're laughing right now. > It's just so out of touch with how we see things, it's beyond pathetic. > > As you can see, my fellow developpers took it about the same way, but > with even more sarcasm... > > we don't give a fuck about security for security's sake: > > free, FUNCTIONAL, secure. choose all three. Says so on the T-shirt. > >
Jah. Wow Linus, apparently making your code such that it is actually stable and working is not a priority? Infact, itstead of not being a priority at all its actually considered BAD? Linus is a nutjob! -- Travers Buda
