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| DATE | 2005-06-07 |
| FROM | Billy
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| SUBJECT | Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Device Drivers Filled With Flaws, Threaten
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Ruben Safir wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 17:03, Inker, Evan wrote:
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>>OK, Please can someone explain why Novell's Director of Software Engineering
>>make the following statement publicly:
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> Because he opposes the move into the GNU/Linux sphere. It seems pretty
> obvious. MS drivers secure? Please. Linux drivers not secure and poor
> quality, please don't make me sick. The pool of programmers in both
> cases largely suck, but I'd rather trust Donald Beckers Eth0 drivers to
> the paid minions of 3Comm land any day.
I'd say that MOST of my WinXP drivers have not been verified by MSFT QA.
XP gives me a warning about the driver, and I still NEED the driver,
so I click "OK" and that's the end of it.
> And you know what, how do you audit code that is closed like the moronic
> patent protected NVideo systems.
I guess you don't. So the free drivers have been subject to analysis
which the nonfree drivers have not been subject to. To say the free
drivers are less secure is therefore disingenuous. We can't simply
compare MSFT's QA lab tests to the automated free driver security audit
and expect to draw meaningful conclusions.
> Maybe Billy can shed light on this.
Maybe.
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