Re: Nomination question: Redhat

[Michael Stone <mstone@itri.loyola.edu>]

Quoting James Troup (james@nocrew.org):
> This is the worst possible kind of FUD.  Yes, Redhat did have some
> programs inadvertently SUID, but then have you even bothered to check
> how many SUID binaries we have and how valid their SUIDness is?  It's
> not a pretty sight.  You also failed magnificently to remember the
> recent fte fiasco, which was far worse than anything Redhat have
> done[1].

But IIRC, the fte thing wasn't in a release version, was it? If you're
running a pre-release, you take what you get. OTOH, it's a good example
of why an open development model is a Good Thing: it got caught _before_
we sent it out on thousands of cd's.

Mike Stone