From owner-freebsd-chat Wed May 22 6:50:28 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FD9F37B40B for ; Wed, 22 May 2002 06:50:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-b158.otenet.gr [212.205.244.166]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g4MDoEHY014723; Wed, 22 May 2002 16:50:15 +0300 (EEST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (hades [127.0.0.1]) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g4MDoDrs001852; Wed, 22 May 2002 16:50:13 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g4MDoC3e001851; Wed, 22 May 2002 16:50:12 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 16:50:12 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Brad Knowles Cc: Terry Lambert , FreeBSD Chat Mailing List Subject: Re: /.: Microsoft Cites National Security to Justify Closed Source Message-ID: <20020522135012.GF968@hades.hell.gr> References: <20020522025534.GB386@hades.hell.gr> <3CEB3A3B.CF62340C@mindspring.com> <20020522082154.GA4265@hades.hell.gr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.99i 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 On 2002-05-22 15:20, Brad Knowles wrote: > 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? I know. It's just as bad as it sounds. Maybe more. I am just being a bit cynical because this is something that the BSD users customarily do when they are 'building world' or 'recompiling ports'. -- Giorgos Keramidas - http://www.FreeBSD.org keramida@FreeBSD.org - The Power to Serve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message