, 2002-08-07
The OpenSSH backdoor demonstrates that the community must get pragmatic about package verification, and fast.
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Is it really so inmature?
2002-08-08
Javier Fernandez-Sanguino (1 replies)
Javier Fernandez-Sanguino (1 replies)
Time Time to Grow UP? NO! Time to quit acting like children! There is a difference.
2002-08-09
Axe-2-Grind
Axe-2-Grind
Because growing up is a matter of perspective, the big bad world is just as guilty of the same "immature" actions as the Open Source community. I mean, really, society has lived with a backdoor in windows for a while, but no one seems to mind :).
I think if you lay down too many standards, you prohibit innovation, because standards would keep you from going outside the norm, outside the box, where innovation lives.
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