Upcoming OpenSSH vulnerability (fwd)

Condon Thomas A KPWA tcondon
Mon May 17 11:33:55 PDT 2004


So, you are using M$ as an example of proper behavior for coders?  Either in
society or in code?

> From: Net Llama! [mailto:netllama at linux-sxs.org]
> 
> Don't forget about M$.
> 
> On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Michael Hipp wrote:
> > I don't believe there is anywhere written in the "social 
> contract" that
> > producing a certain quantity of code entitles you to 
> utterly ignore the
> > common ideas of civility and inter-personal relationships.
> >
> > But, unfortunately, a great deal of the OSS developers seem 
> to see it the
> > way you stated.
> >
> > On Tuesday 25 June 2002 03:38 pm, Net Llama! wrote:
> > > On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Philip J. Koenig wrote:
> > > > There has been a heated discussion on this over in the FreeBSD
> > > > security list, suffice to say that Theo's obnoxious 
> attitude doesn't
> > > > help matters.  Nonetheless this is important info:
> > >
> > > The way i see it, if you write a heaping hunk of code 
> that thousands, if
> > > not millions of people use on a daily basis, you can be 
> as obnoxious as
> > > you like.


In Harmony's Way, and In A Chord,

Tom  :-})

Thomas A. Condon
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