Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 03:32:26 -0700 From: Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> To: "FreeBSD, Advocacy" <freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: why BSDs got no love (and why security gets no love) Message-ID: <20091223103226.GC26235@guilt.hydra> In-Reply-To: <541b7a870912150733m4bc34148j98790a6142d4521c@mail.gmail.com> References: <541b7a870912150733m4bc34148j98790a6142d4521c@mail.gmail.com>
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--OBd5C1Lgu00Gd/Tn Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 04:33:49PM +0100, Jan Husar wrote: > http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/opensource/?p=3D1123&tag=3Dnl.e011 By the way . . . as another writer at TechRepublic, I've written another article that responds substantially to what Jack Wallen said about the various BSD Unix systems in his article, "Why the BSDs get no love". My article has been submitted to the editor, and I believe it is slated to be auto-published next week while most (if not all) of the TR staff is off for the holidays under the title "Why security gets no love". While the actual core topic of the article is the deplorable lack of proper attention to security matters in the IT world in general, it uses Wallen's article as a springboard, and the beginning of it is largely a direct response to the "Why the BSDs get no love" article. I thought I'd bring it up here, since there has been some concern showed on this list about the content of Wallen's article. I'd wait until my article gets published to mention it here, so I could provide a direct URL to it at the time, but I might be electronically incommunicado at the time (Christmas vacation and all), so I figured I'd give anyone interested a heads-up that it's coming. I welcome any (hopefully constructive) feedback from the FreeBSD Advocacy list's members and the larger FreeBSD community, of course. For the record, this email was composed on my ThinkPad running FreeBSD 7.2. I mention FreeBSD from time to time in my security articles, and have been particularly focusing on some matters related to basic filesystem security this month in my TechRepublic articles. While I will probably have to lay off the FreeBSD stuff for a little while to keep the editors happy, I wouldn't mind suggestions from FreeBSD advocates for what other FreeBSD-related topics might make for good security article content in the future -- especially if they tie in strongly with more "mainstream" security topics. --=20 Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] --OBd5C1Lgu00Gd/Tn Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAksx8bkACgkQ9mn/Pj01uKVUfgCdE6QLtZcW6BWIisni9RIkKfKE NtQAnii3qHSac7L77FquwsC6P9eoycEb =oHUS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --OBd5C1Lgu00Gd/Tn--
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