From owner-freebsd-chat Wed May 22 6:25:45 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from riker.skynet.be (riker.skynet.be [195.238.3.89]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D50C037B409 for ; Wed, 22 May 2002 06:25:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.0.1.11] (ip-27.shub-internet.org [194.78.144.27] (may be forged)) by riker.skynet.be (8.11.6/8.11.6/Skynet-OUT-2.19) with ESMTP id g4MDOkY18112; Wed, 22 May 2002 15:24:46 +0200 (MET DST) (envelope-from ) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: bs663385@pop.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20020522082154.GA4265@hades.hell.gr> References: <20020522025534.GB386@hades.hell.gr> <3CEB3A3B.CF62340C@mindspring.com> <20020522082154.GA4265@hades.hell.gr> X-Grok: +++ath X-WebTV-Stationery: Standard; BGColor=black; TextColor=black Reply-By: Wed, 1 Jan 1984 12:34:56 +0100 X-Message-Flag: Your copy of Outlook will expire in 3 days. Please contact Microsoft about purchasing a new license. Remember: software piracy is a felony! Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 15:20:19 +0200 To: Giorgos Keramidas , Terry Lambert From: Brad Knowles Subject: Re: /.: Microsoft Cites National Security to Justify Closed Source Cc: Brad Knowles , FreeBSD Chat Mailing List Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" 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 At 11:21 AM +0300 2002/05/22, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >> When you fix design flaws, APIs change. >> It would require recompiling everything. > > Yes, I know. How about "not my problem, but Microsoft's" ? > If they want to claim that their products are secure, then they should > make the effort that it takes to compile them ;) I think that he means that all the client programs would have to be recompiled, too. Can you imagine forcing all Windows programs that have ever written to be recompiled? -- Brad Knowles, "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message