Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2015 14:55:59 +0800 From: Bret Busby <bret.busby@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Microsoft Now OpenBSD Foundation Gold Contributor Message-ID: <CACX6j8Pb3mP=xeiAxGw6fLO%2BqcjGfC3TPDATO8Kov3%2BwyjcyYA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1436566596.18451.17.camel@rocketmail.com> References: <BLU437-SMTP2B8F14BE7B4D30D13EC96809F0@phx.gbl> <559FF775.7030204@mgm51.com> <33650.128.135.70.2.1436549147.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> <55A00F43.90908@gmail.com> <20150710212456.70c0d1db.freebsd@edvax.de> <CAOgwaMs=bV4=eb3XTKZKGb62ds7mr_vZ37=0myjw1id7MKtY4w@mail.gmail.com> <20150711000551.414cfc4b@archlinux> <1436566596.18451.17.camel@rocketmail.com>
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On 11/07/2015, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, 2015-07-11 at 00:05 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> On Fri, 10 Jul 2015 14:30:21 -0700, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote: >> > This means that , claiming that "copy-left licensed software is >> > more >> > secure than permissive licensed software" is a groundless and >> > incorrect claim . >> >> I agree, but there is a valid claim that doesn't depend on the >> chossen >> free license. >> >> This one: >> A non-restrictive, open source OS is more secure than a restricted >> OS. >> But even for non-restrictive, open source operating systems there >> are >> differences. It has less to do with the chosen system or license, >> BSD, >> GNU/Linux or what ever, but with the policy. >> >> A FreeBSD or Arch Linux or Linux from scratch user will set up the >> install, the user has much control over the install. An Ubuntu Linux >> flavour user installs an environment that works out of the box, so >> there is less control and it already leads to issues. >> >> https://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/ubuntu-spyware-what-to-do >> >> Today I started a discussion on several Linux mailing lists after a >> Xubuntu user reported that the root password is required, when bug >> report pop up windows ask to generate and send a bug report. >> >> IOW there are two approaches, the approach from restricted OSes, that >> is used by some OOTB non-restricted open source OSes too, that >> usually >> claim to be user-friendly and the "real" non-restricted open source >> user-centric approach. >> >> The non-restricted open source user-centric approach is more secure. >> The approach has less to do with the chosen OS or used free license. >> >> 2 Cents, >> Ralf > > PS: IOW it doesn't matter if the thingy in your satellite receiver is > GPLed or has got a BSD license, since it's a so called user-friendly > approach thingy. You don't have any control over this thingy. IOW? -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia .............. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means." - Deep Thought, Chapter 28 of Book 1 of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy In Four Parts", written by Douglas Adams, published by Pan Books, 1992 ....................................................
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