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

[Remko Lodder]

Remko Lodder wrote:
> 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.
> 

Done.

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      Remko Lodder               ** remko at elvandar.org
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