Re: [PLUG] Is closed source more secure?

2010-10-10 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Sunday 10 October 2010 19:01:48 Mayuresh wrote: > Legal matters is one thing. The premise of doing all this being "security" > of "operating systems developed in western countries" and instead "have > source code that nobody knows about" - at least the choice of words is > not very convincing.

Re: [PLUG] Is closed source more secure?

2010-10-10 Thread Amarendra Godbole
On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 11:38 AM, Mayuresh wrote: > There is this news article in some newspapers today: > > "India to develop its own OS" > > http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/infotech/hardware/India-to-develop-its-own-futuristic-computer-operating-system/articleshow/6719490.cms [...] All hogw

Re: [PLUG] Is closed source more secure?

2010-10-10 Thread Mayuresh
On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 05:43:24PM +0530, Shridhar Daithankar wrote: > And I think law will say that the government is a single oraganization. > > -- > Regards > Shridhar Interesting. Though not sure whether the statements that came in media are with all this thought. Particularly see this: Th

Re: [PLUG] Is closed source more secure?

2010-10-10 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Sunday 10 October 2010 13:11:30 Mayuresh wrote: > On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 12:39:19PM +0530, Shridhar Daithankar wrote: > > Who knows, that might be the case, except releasing the modifications > > back to community. That could be debated but still complies with the > > license, if not spirit. >

Re: [PLUG] Is closed source more secure?

2010-10-10 Thread Mayuresh
On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 12:39:19PM +0530, Shridhar Daithankar wrote: > I doubt. There might be some private modifications to linux/bsd that they > don't want to release and as far as security goes, it does not really help to > publish the exact source code that is used for creating the binary dis

Re: [PLUG] Is closed source more secure?

2010-10-10 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Sunday 10 October 2010 11:38:34 Mayuresh wrote: > There is this news article in some newspapers today: > > "India to develop its own OS" > > http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/infotech/hardware/India-to-develop-its- > own-futuristic-computer-operating-system/articleshow/6719490.cms > > Accor