[nycbug-talk] gpl on /.

[Mikel King]

On Sep 30, 2005, at 11:08 PM, Marco Scoffier wrote:


> On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 07:21:08PM -0400, Marc Spitzer wrote:
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>> On 9/30/05, Marco Scoffier <marco at metm.org> wrote:
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>>> <big snip>
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>>> On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 05:02:55PM -0400, Mikel King wrote:
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>>>> On a side note, I'm wondering what sort of security holes this will
>>>> open?
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>>> Don't you mean close?
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>> nope open, the easyest way to exploit code is to read the code for
>> bugs and not tell the people who are running their bussiness on it.
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> Oh the businesses always find out when there is an exploit,
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> I'm a bit suprised by what seems to be an arguement for a false sense
> of security.
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> -- Marco
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>

False or not, if you have to rely on someone else writing it for you  
then you probably lake the ability to discover the flaws yourself.  
Anyone who's been in this business for a while can surely agree that  
security stands fairly low on the priorities of most CFOs.

This is not really a debate about security, it's about a stupid idea,  
that adds no value to the current gpl, and more importantly it is the  
kind of stupidity that give's open source a bad name.