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Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 02:08:36 +0930
From: David Newall <davidn@davidnewall.com>
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To: Cheradenine Zakalwe <sc.contact@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: The state of linux security
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Cheradenine Zakalwe wrote:
> If the attitudes of the people at the top of linux development don't
> change this is the end of the linux experiment for me and i'm sure
> many other people.  The percieved benifits of transparancy, openness
> and cost will have been completely smashed for the vast majority of
> users.  This is not something to be taken lightly.

There is a project which is seriously concerned about security as well
as open source, and it's name is OpenBSD.  Not a popular observation to
make in some parts, I know, but true none-the-less.
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