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From: hmccurdy@ix.netcom.com (Hugh McCurdy)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: need secure OS to entrust millions to
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 07:01:32 GMT
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kpneal@eos.ncsu.edu (Kevin P. Neal) wrote:

>Terry Lambert (terry@lambert.org) wrote:
>: nc0453@netcom.com (-) wrote:
>: > Can you name one commercial OS that provides source code?
>: 
>: What are you willing to pay?
>: 
>: o	BSDI
>: o	SVR4
>: o	VMS
>: o	OSF/1
>: o	SunOS
>: 

>I second this. A friend of mine works with Lockheed on contract to the
>EPA. He says that they have loads of source code lying around, because
>they do all sorts of security stuff and need that code.

>This guy was also told by a co-worker that Mainframes are *always* more
>secure than a Unix box. So my friend proceeded to break into the guy's
>Mainframe. Point made.

>Be careful, and good luck. I hope to not read about you in the paper.


Sure, you can get source code to any program.  Look at Novell, they
got Unix source code from USL for a mere $333million.  ;^)

I don't know what SCO paid....but source code is pretty much always
available, if you got the bucks.