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| DATE | 2005-06-07 |
| FROM | Mark Simko
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Feedback
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If the following quote was made by one of your employees, as
indicated in the article, then he needs to be let go. Statements like
that do not help sell Novell products. Novell has enough marketing
issues without traitors on board.
The device drivers in question are all open to inspection, unlike
proprietary drivers which likely have similar security vulnerabilities,
but will never get fixed because the products are obsolete and the
code is secret.
Obviously he is not on board, because he otherwise would have
turned this into an opportunity to praise Suse strengths rather than
paint this as a weakness.
As a stock holder, I am gravely disappointed.
Mark Simko
Novell's Director of Software
Engineering
make the following statement publicly:
" The Linux kernel has been consistently audited for security, but the
kernel source tree contains huge numbers of outdated device drivers,
says
Novell software engineering director Crispin Cowan."
"Device Drivers Filled With Flaws, Threaten Security"
Security Focus (05/26/05); Lemos, Robert
Mark Simko
msimko-at-optonline.net
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