From owner-freebsd-advocacy Wed Feb 21 2:33:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-64-165-226-53.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [64.165.226.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6020C37B401 for ; Wed, 21 Feb 2001 02:33:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id BF29466F2E; Wed, 21 Feb 2001 02:33:16 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 02:33:16 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: Dennis Jun , freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD licence vs GPL Message-ID: <20010221023316.A49953@mollari.cthul.hu> References: <046d01c09bd0$1e8bdfc0$0300a8c0@wilma> <007101c09be9$04ff4f60$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="9amGYk9869ThD9tj" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <007101c09be9$04ff4f60$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>; from tedm@toybox.placo.com on Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 01:31:07AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --9amGYk9869ThD9tj Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 01:31:07AM -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > To give you some examples of why this is so stupid, there have been a number > of security vulnerabilities posted in the last couple of years that > were repaired in publc BSD code within a day of release of knowledge > of the vulnerability, yet commercial software vendors (who purported to > be using Real Live BSD networking code) took weeks to issue patches. > Well I can tell you, this is a recipie for getting your commercial software > ejected from any self-respecting ISP. Worse; I have the nasty suspicion that a lot of them NEVER get fixed, and lurk around forever letting people who realise this fact take advantage of them. So there's a definite advantage to staying close the BSD community, even though the license doesn't require them to. Kris --9amGYk9869ThD9tj Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6k5lsWry0BWjoQKURAiNMAKDOcu/KQ6j2WlalD57ju+i/z5Pm9wCglHVM +Wd+yo8Fpgdo1VVV1CimdM4= =trmM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --9amGYk9869ThD9tj-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message