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Re: Nomination question: Redhat



On Sun, Dec 13, 1998 at 03:25:41PM -0800, Joseph Carter wrote:

>  The way your argument looks to me is "they have Alan Cox and we
> don't so they must have a better security tean."  So they have Alan
> Cox working for them, I don't consider this a big deal.

>From what I have understood, the people involved in the 'linux
security audit' or whatever it is, are mostly working with redhat.
 
> As for Alan being more than a kernel hacker, what more is he?  What
> makes him so special that the distribution that hired him is so much
> better than everyone else?  He can code?  A lot of people can code.

He's on a pretty close level to Linus, and has done a lot for linux
(big understatement).

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David Welton                          http://www.efn.org/~davidw 

        Debian GNU/Linux - www.debian.org


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