On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 6:22 PM, Kyle Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 3:10 PM, Nick Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> Anyway, I don't think of OpenBSD as a 'secure' system, I think of it
>> as a 'correct' system, and security is a side effect of that that's
>> good for marketing. Doesn't seem like Linus gets that.
>
> That's the comedy of it though, isn't it? Most bugs (security-related
> or otherwise) are just incorrect programming. Squashing bugs helps to
> resolve both reliability and security problems. The OpenBSD team
> resolves both.. whether they're trying to fix "only security" bugs or
> not is kindof irrelevant, because they're still fixing both by fixing
> either.
>
> At any rate, I gave up a long time ago caring what the Linux dorks
> think about our masturbatory cult of correctness. I think these
> off-comments are funny, and personally I'm all about my/our
> competition using crap operating systems just because they're trendy.
> Meanwhile we all get the reputation of running reliable businesses
> that get shit done and aren't just fucking around.

(And some of us aren't ever planning on running businesses, but we
still are drawn by the elegance.)
(-Nick)

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