Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 17:40:10 +0200 From: Remko Lodder <remko@FreeBSD.org> To: remko@FreeBSD.org Cc: doc-committers@FreeBSD.org, Murray Stokely <murray@freebsdmall.com>, 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: <42E1135A.5080603@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <42E11283.5010806@FreeBSD.org> References: <200507191910.j6JJAg6a077939@repoman.freebsd.org> <20050722123418.GE594@gothic.blackend.org> <20050722142517.GA21388@freebsdmall.com> <42E10C08.8070804@FreeBSD.org> <20050722152455.GH21388@freebsdmall.com> <42E11283.5010806@FreeBSD.org>
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Remko Lodder wrote:
> 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.
>
Done.
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Kind regards,
Remko Lodder ** remko@elvandar.org
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