Ubuntu Security: Holes Found, Holes Fixed

David Gerard dgerard at gmail.com
Sat Mar 5 13:16:36 UTC 2011


On 5 March 2011 13:08, Michael Haney <thezorch at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 6:40 AM, Basil Chupin <blchupin at iinet.net.au> wrote:

>> Oh my God! There are security holes in Ubuntu 10.04! The sky is falling!
>> http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/ubuntu-security-holes-found-holes-fixed/8402

> This is where healthy open source projects have a major advantage over
> big, lumbering commercial entities.  They can respond to bugs and
> security holes a whole hell of a lot faster.  In fact, many security
> holes and bugs can be fixed THE DAY THEY'RE FOUND and released to
> users THE SAME DAY.
> Microsoft and Apple simply cannot compete with that kind of flexibility.


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- d.



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