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From: Ray Auchterlounie <rda@kythera.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Why not buy Matrox Millennium
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 1996 21:14:47 +0100
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Jerzy A Mlotkiewicz <jurek@dode.demon.co.uk> wrote:
[...]
>If someone has to buy an X server rather than get it for free or some
>time spend downloading it, it would be better to buy it from Sun
>Microsystems... Solaris for example, will be fixed immediately should
>there be a bug found by a user.. fixes have been known to be out VERY
>quickly..
[...]
You missed out the <sarcasm> / smiley.
That would be the same Solaris that since 2.4 (months ? a year ago ?)
sends every bloody packet at least 2 or 3 times on slow links
(ie. dial-up) ? you should know, we use the same Solaris news server...
Or how about (from discussions on latest Linux Security update):
Quoted from - Message-ID: <4uo1kq$h9e@cronkite.ocis.temple.edu>
[...]
- the information on this vulnerability was circulating over
mailing lists and usenet for more than 6 month. We thought that it
was *fixed* when in *May*
[...]
LSF update was written in this style to make it clear to CERT that
we are not going to keep-it-low because they have not had enough
time to tell Sun again about the bug.
[...] ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Now, what was that about "fixed immediately should there be a bug
found by a user" - or do bug reports from CERT not count ?
ray
--
Ray Auchterlounie Research Student (still) at:
<rda@kythera.demon.co.uk> Signal Processing Group
<rda@eng.cam.ac.uk> Cambridge University Engineering Dept.
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