BSD derivatives

[Paul Schmehl]

--On June 3, 2007 4:33:01 AM +0200 Jona Joachim <jaj at hcl-club.lu> wrote:

> On Sat, 02 Jun 2007 18:10:27 -0700
> Colin Percival <cperciva at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
>> Bill Moran wrote:
>> > OpenBSD puts security higher on its list of project goals and
>> > motivating factors than any other OS I know.
>>
>> I disagree.  I'd say that OpenBSD and FreeBSD put security in exactly
>> the same place -- at the top of the list.
>
> Sorry but I have to disagree here.
> FreeBSD ships with closed source software including following drivers:
> ath, nve, oltr, rr232x, hptmv.
> Closed source software implies potential insecurity. If security is at
> the top of the list then I see a clear contradiction here.
>
Sorry, but that's an incredibly naive statement.  *All* software implies 
potential insecurity.  It's the nature of software.

If it were untrue, there would be no security patches for open source 
software.

Paul Schmehl (pauls at utdallas.edu)
Senior Information Security Analyst
The University of Texas at Dallas
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/