Re: Doom of Debian Re: Debian Weekly News - February 18th, 2003
On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 11:02:36PM +0100, Davide Inglima wrote:
> While Anthony's proposal of "Reviewing all upstream changes" makes sense on
> a security standpoint, it will put the necessary strain to Debian to
> self-destruct the distribution. There already are problems to port 6000+
> packages on (how many? 7? 11?) different architectures, this harmful easter
> egg could be the drop that tops off the distribution. I have already begun
> to see growing disaffection to GNU/Linux by former enthusiast people, and
> this can simply spell the final doom on the credibility of open-source.
>
> This, of course, is my humble opinion, and I may (hopefully) be wrong.
Yeah. It's better to use proprietary databases with hidden back doors.
Open source actually improves the situtation. It's a bit easier to hide
such things inside a binary then it is in the source.
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