From owner-freebsd-security Tue Oct 3 1:57:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from homer.softweyr.com (bsdconspiracy.net [208.187.122.220]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D84837B502 for ; Tue, 3 Oct 2000 01:57:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=softweyr.com ident=Fools trust ident!) by homer.softweyr.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 13gNzY-000PRH-00; Tue, 03 Oct 2000 03:04:04 -0600 Message-ID: <39D9A104.ECAEEDCC@softweyr.com> Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 03:04:04 -0600 From: Wes Peters Reply-To: John Howie Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: John Howie , James Wyatt , Brett Glass , "Chris D . Faulhaber" , security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ftpd bug in FreeBSD through at least 3.4 References: <23683.970516562@critter> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In message <036301c02caa$ebc17300$fd01a8c0@pacbell.net>, "John Howie" writes: >> >Are you saying that if we found a terrible bug (not this easy one) >> >somewhere critical in 3.5.%d, we'd all have to immediatly upgrade? - Jy@ >> >> Yes, I am saying that. > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > >And this is why Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, et al will NEVER beat a supported >pay-for-use Operating System like Windows in the eyes of real-world >business-critical system administrators and CIOs. Of course, all the egos, >moaning, and bitching don't help either. Oh, yeah, Mickeysoft is going to go back and fix that nasty little bug in Win95 for you, because you were a good boy and paid up your MSDN Enterprise subscription. Since this has nothing to do with security, I wisely disincluded them. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message