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)