Re: Paper "Security record of open source and free software"

2017-08-29 Thread Matthias Kirschner
Dear Eike, * Eike Rathke [2017-08-25 18:18 +0200]: Theproblem is "genehmigungsfrei", which can be translated as "free of licensing", but in this context shouldn't, as almost every Free Software *does* come with some license. I think a much better approach would be to use "free of approbation".

Re: Paper "Security record of open source and free software"

2017-08-25 Thread Eike Rathke
Hi Matthias, On Friday, 2017-08-18 10:51:21 +, Matthias Kirschner wrote: > https://www.esmt.org/sites/default/files/dsi_ipr5_engl-dt.pdf (English > and German) > > Looking forward to your comments. It was pointed out to me by a very attentive reader ;) that the English version has some od

Re: Paper "Security record of open source and free software"

2017-08-20 Thread Eike Rathke
Hi Matthias, On Friday, 2017-08-18 10:51:21 +, Matthias Kirschner wrote: > https://www.esmt.org/sites/default/files/dsi_ipr5_engl-dt.pdf (English > and German) > > Looking forward to your comments. Thanks a lot! I think that is a valuable summary of analysis which can be used when present

Paper "Security record of open source and free software"

2017-08-18 Thread Matthias Kirschner
In April Mirko Böhm and myself participated at a workshop about security of Free Software. Below the paper which resulted out of it: In April 2017, the Digital Society Institute hosted a workshop entitled "How Secure is free software? Security record of open source and free software." The wor