From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 22 10:38:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from typhoon.mail.pipex.net (typhoon.mail.pipex.net [158.43.128.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9E02514F84 for ; Wed, 22 Dec 1999 10:38:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: (qmail 10969 invoked from network); 22 Dec 1999 18:38:14 -0000 Received: from userah69.uk.uudial.com (HELO marder-1.) (62.188.132.254) by smtp.dial.pipex.com with SMTP; 22 Dec 1999 18:38:14 -0000 Received: (from mark@localhost) by marder-1. (8.9.3/8.8.8) id SAA00496; Wed, 22 Dec 1999 18:38:07 GMT (envelope-from mark) Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 18:38:06 +0000 From: Mark Ovens To: Jonathon McKitrick Cc: MCI Worldcom , questions FreeBSD Subject: Re: FW: UNIX Security Issue - URGENT Message-ID: <19991222183806.B322@marder-1> References: <002701bf4c97$7d9d59a0$22a72ca6@david> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Dec 22, 1999 at 05:30:04PM +0000, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, MCI Worldcom wrote: > > >I support your position, there isn't any good business reason for us to be > >running a shareware operating system within our environment. > >> Operations view the use of > Linux on the network as potentially dangerous > >and a clear threat to the > security of the network. > > This is the best part yet! I smell a rat... > It's a e-greetings Christmas card from Bill Gates to the Linus Torvalds > > -jm > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- "there's a long-standing bug relating to the x86 architecture that allows you to install Windows too ;" -Matthew D. Fuller ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message