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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!olive.mil.adfa.oz.au!navmat.navy.gov.au!posgate.acis.com.au!warrane.connect.com.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!newshost.convex.com!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!ix.netcom.com!netnews 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 Organization: Netcom Lines: 34 Message-ID: <4grlq7$k1q@ixnews3.ix.netcom.com> References: <4gi6t6$3h9@lace.colorado.edu> <312D2029.FF6D5DF@FreeBSD.org> <nc0453Dn96w6.93F@netcom.com> <4gnoa3$i5h@park.uvsc.edu> <4gr3nr$bbc@taco.cc.ncsu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: ix-syr3-14.ix.netcom.com X-NETCOM-Date: Sun Feb 25 11:00:23 PM PST 1996 X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.system:18086 comp.os.linux.misc:88777 comp.os.linux.networking:29808 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:14418 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:2339 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:2481 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.