cvs commit: www/en/marketing os-comparison.sgml

[Remko Lodder]

Murray Stokely wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 05:08:56PM +0200, Remko Lodder wrote:
> 
>>>>This update disturbs me.  By mentioning CERT advisories without an OS
>>>>separation gives me the feeling that the document is missing its
>>>>objective.  Why not just give a link to CERT advisories list then?
>>>>The previous "CERT Advisories in 2000 that affected Linux" and "CERT
>>>>Advisories in 2000 that affected Windows" parts were an interesting
>>>>advocacy argument.  I don't think phpBB or Oracle vulns well push people
>>>>to use FreeBSD, etc.
>>>
>>>
>>>Yes, I agree that a full list of CERT advisories of the last year is
>>>less useful than the several years old breakdown of CERT advisories
>>>grouped by affected operating system.
>>>
>>>Also, surely such information is provided via XML somewhere and so if
>>>it was desired it should be automatically syndicated, not copied in to
>>>this document manually.
>>>
>>>    - Murray
>>
>>Hi,
>>
>>Feel free to adjust it to better needs. I am not really into advocacy
>>and stuff, just did what the PR asked us to do :-).
> 
> 
> Many PRs are better just closed than patched.  
> 
> Can you back it out and point out to the submitter that the whole
> point is in the OS comparison article is to show how FreeBSD is (or at
> least was several years ago when I wrote it) affected by far fewer
> CERT advisories than Windows or Red Hat Linux?
> 
> If you don't want to do this, maybe have the submitter go through the
> advisories and group them by effected OS as before?
> 
> 	- Murray

I will backout.

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      Remko Lodder               ** remko at elvandar.org
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