linux-kernel - Re: The state of linux security

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Date:	Thu, 17 Jul 2008 02:08:36 +0930
From:	David Newall <davidn@...idnewall.com>
To:	Cheradenine Zakalwe <sc.contact@...il.com>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: The state of linux security

Cheradenine Zakalwe wrote:
> If the attitudes of the people at the top of linux development don't
> change this is the end of the linux experiment for me and i'm sure
> many other people.  The percieved benifits of transparancy, openness
> and cost will have been completely smashed for the vast majority of
> users.  This is not something to be taken lightly.

There is a project which is seriously concerned about security as well
as open source, and it's name is OpenBSD.  Not a popular observation to
make in some parts, I know, but true none-the-less.
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