re: open source and php--I agree with John re: the article--It is a rather obvious attempt to take pressure off of Microsoft.
The paragraph: "In the past, Microsoft's Internet Information Server has had a slew of problems with flaws in its components that allowed hackers and worms to break in. This time, the software appears to be less vulnerable to the PHP flaw." has only one purpose, try and make microsoft look a little better. Yes, this is a particularly bad bug, but a link to the patch was posted WITH the advisory. In the microsoft world, patches are not so forcoming to their enormous amounts of security problems--what's the average wait for a patch from redmond to fix IIS--and more importantly, how many times has a patch been necessary? Nothing more than standard microsft tactics--an example: "PHP is still a changing language. There are minor differences among PHP releases. For example, include_once is only available from PHP 4.0 patch level 1." from http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/TechNet/prodtechn ol/iis/deploy/depovg/miglamp.asp Microsoft is the king of marketing new features with their product releases that are spread far apart. They put a negative spin on one of the many awesome side-effects of open source--code constantly gets better in every release no matter how tiny; this may be a foreign concept to those used to the endless stream of security/bug fix patches from redmond--they get to wait years (XP SP1 took a year) for an increase in features and they still lack the code stability that the wait was supposed to afford them. -----Original Message----- From: John Meyer To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 3/1/02 7:55 PM Subject: Re: [PHP-WIN] any comment? Patch done, end of story. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Afan Pasalic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 8:21 AM Subject: [PHP-WIN] any comment? "Flaws found in PHP scripting language" http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-847252.html Any comment? Afan -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
