From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Jun 29 20:23:45 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A805D37B401; Sat, 29 Jun 2002 20:23:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from spork.pantherdragon.org (spork.pantherdragon.org [206.29.168.146]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E2E343E09; Sat, 29 Jun 2002 20:23:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dmp@pantherdragon.org) Received: from spark.techno.pagans (spark.techno.pagans [4.61.202.145]) by spork.pantherdragon.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C8F4471DA; Sat, 29 Jun 2002 20:23:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pantherdragon.org (speck.techno.pagans [172.21.42.2]) by spark.techno.pagans (Postfix) with ESMTP id 693C5FEBE; Sat, 29 Jun 2002 20:23:38 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3D1E79BA.BA02FBC0@pantherdragon.org> Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2002 20:23:38 -0700 From: Darren Pilgrim X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kris Kirby Cc: Brett Glass , Terry Lambert , Doug Barton , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: We're famous References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Kris Kirby wrote: > > On Sat, 29 Jun 2002, Brett Glass wrote: > > Maybe they were worried that their worm would fall under > > the GPL, and they'd have to give away the source. ;-) > > You're right -- the GPL, plus the source would show up waaay to easy with > strings(1). Something else to consider was a viewpoint a client expressed to me just this afternoon. He viewpoint basically was that with Linux, the security advisories are so numerous and varied, that he doesn't even pay attention to most of them anymore. But whenever he sees one about FreeBSD, he always reads it. We talked more about this, and what it coems down to is that, for him, there is no real distinction between all the different Linux distributions. They all are "Linux" to him. If you're looking for recognition for something like a worm, you wouldn't make it for an OS that gets ignored by those who can get you the press. You'd want to make it be effective against the OSes that people consider the most secure. If the author were aware of the above attitude in the business world, choosing something other than Linux is merely an advertising tactic. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message