Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 11:22:10 -0500 From: Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD, GPL, the world today. (fwd) Message-ID: <19990513112210.A19394@holly.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.37.19990513095524.04429440@localhost>; from Brett Glass on Thu, May 13, 1999 at 10:05:44AM -0600 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990513104700.2143C-100000@beelzebubba.sysabe nd.org> <4.2.0.37.19990513095524.04429440@localhost>
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On Thu, May 13, 1999, Brett Glass wrote: > Of course, the correct solution to the problem is to build proper tools > for crafting and analyzing code (goodbye, C and C++!) and to train our > programmers in good coding techniques. (Most bugs can be boiled down to the > same dozen or so common programming or architectural mistakes.) Will > it happen? Not the way things are going. But software quality is not > a licensing issue. Open source is, again, one way of attempting to > brute force the problem rather than solving it ab initio. The solution to the problem of 'Black Hats' exploiting open source software before 'White Hats' can fix it is to learn how to code properly. If they did enough testing (I believe buffer overflow, formatting "bugs", etc), the problem would be much smaller. > --Brett Glass -- Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com> Design: The activity of preparing for a design review. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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