Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 17:36:35 +0200 From: Remko Lodder <remko@FreeBSD.org> To: Murray Stokely <murray@freebsdmall.com> Cc: doc-committers@FreeBSD.org, Marc Fonvieille <blackend@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: www/en/marketing os-comparison.sgml Message-ID: <42E11283.5010806@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20050722152455.GH21388@freebsdmall.com> References: <200507191910.j6JJAg6a077939@repoman.freebsd.org> <20050722123418.GE594@gothic.blackend.org> <20050722142517.GA21388@freebsdmall.com> <42E10C08.8070804@FreeBSD.org> <20050722152455.GH21388@freebsdmall.com>
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Murray Stokely wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 05:08:56PM +0200, Remko Lodder wrote:
>
>>>>This update disturbs me. By mentioning CERT advisories without an OS
>>>>separation gives me the feeling that the document is missing its
>>>>objective. Why not just give a link to CERT advisories list then?
>>>>The previous "CERT Advisories in 2000 that affected Linux" and "CERT
>>>>Advisories in 2000 that affected Windows" parts were an interesting
>>>>advocacy argument. I don't think phpBB or Oracle vulns well push people
>>>>to use FreeBSD, etc.
>>>
>>>
>>>Yes, I agree that a full list of CERT advisories of the last year is
>>>less useful than the several years old breakdown of CERT advisories
>>>grouped by affected operating system.
>>>
>>>Also, surely such information is provided via XML somewhere and so if
>>>it was desired it should be automatically syndicated, not copied in to
>>>this document manually.
>>>
>>> - Murray
>>
>>Hi,
>>
>>Feel free to adjust it to better needs. I am not really into advocacy
>>and stuff, just did what the PR asked us to do :-).
>
>
> Many PRs are better just closed than patched.
>
> Can you back it out and point out to the submitter that the whole
> point is in the OS comparison article is to show how FreeBSD is (or at
> least was several years ago when I wrote it) affected by far fewer
> CERT advisories than Windows or Red Hat Linux?
>
> If you don't want to do this, maybe have the submitter go through the
> advisories and group them by effected OS as before?
>
> - Murray
I will backout.
--
Kind regards,
Remko Lodder ** remko@elvandar.org
FreeBSD ** remko@FreeBSD.org
Reporter DSINET ** remko@DSINet.org
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