Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 10 Jun 1998 23:06:51 -0500 (CDT) | From | "Edward S. Marshall" <> | Subject | Re: [Off topic] Re: New Linux distribution - PSL |
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On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Martin Konold wrote: > > > would get samba and squid (okay, I'm biased ;p ), and a 'workstation' > > > distribution may get some nice KDE stuff. > > > > Whoops you've just installed a couple of security holes unless you > > have the right patches applied and exactly the right versions. And > > nobody has even tried to audit KDE yet. You've also created a license > > violating distribution so far ... > > Please stop spreading these lies. [...lots of threats of legal action deleted...]
Wow. You can threaten people with lawyers. What you cannot apparently do is tell people precisely what Alan is lying about:
a) That KDE has never had a formal (or even informal) security audit, and recent BUGTRAQ traffic lends itself well to the need for such a thing...
-or-
b) That KDE, due to licensing issues, could make life hard on those building a distribution around it...
From where I sit (and frankly, I have no political or financial bias in -any- direction), I think they're both very valid points. Care to address them instead of providing thinly veiled threats of legal action?
And how the devil did this -ever- come up on linux-kernel anyway?
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