Return to BSD News archive
Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!lucy.swin.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!newsfeeds.sol.net!uwm.edu!lll-winken.llnl.gov!fnnews.fnal.gov!stc06.ctd.ornl.gov!news.er.usgs.gov!mcmcnews.er.usgs.gov!johns From: johns@cs.umr.edu (John Stone) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.security.unix Subject: Re: OpenBSD hides security fixes (and blindly integrates code) Date: 18 Feb 1997 23:17:53 GMT Organization: Computer Science Dept, Univ. of Missouri-Rolla Lines: 32 Message-ID: <5eddb1$2ji@pluto.er.usgs.gov> References: <none-ya023480001912962244220001@news.infi.net> <5ea2pm$h45@cynic.portal.ca> <slrn5ghrv6.90q.tqbf@char-star.rdist.org> <5ecm2o$p6n@cynic.portal.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: luna.heuris.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:5503 comp.security.unix:31979 In article <5ecm2o$p6n@cynic.portal.ca>, Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.portal.ca> wrote: >In article <slrn5ghrv6.90q.tqbf@char-star.rdist.org>, >Thomas H. Ptacek <tqbf@enteract.com> wrote: >> >>Please dissociate Mr. de Raadt and The Entity Known As OpenBSD. > >That's not really something I can do. It is, however, something >you can do. When do you intend to remove his commit privileges and >kick him out of the core team? :-) Sad Curt. >Given that Theo is the founder of OpenBSD, appears to be one of >the key decision-makers, is the Sparc co-portmaster, the author of >many of those web pages, has OpenBSD in his signature, and spends >a lot of time in the usenet newsgroups promoting OpenBSD, it's >disingenous to tell me to `disassociate' the two. People can't and >won't until you (meaning the rest of the OpenBSD folks) take measures >to do so. Letting him go on the way he does and still associating >yourself and him with OpenBSD is tacit approval of his behaviour. Curt, I can't say that I'm very impressed with yours _now_ either. Just a day ago you were wanted me to convince people to 'let it go' and here I see you're spreading napalm all over the place now.. I don't consider the remaining comments worthy of reply. John Stone j.stone@acm.org