also sprach Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> [2006.09.02.0912 +0200]: > Feh, I think that's a cop-out. It's not that hard to explain, or > that hard to understand, and I've worked with plenty of executives > who can understand that concept just fine when explained in terms > that they're familiar with. So have I. You're welcome to try these two clients of mine! :) (and they are huge clients as well as potential sponsors) > Besides, one of the major reasons why I work on free software > projects like Debian is precisely because I have no intention of > considering the opinions of those ignorant of the issues involved > when determining questions of technical policy. The technicians at the place think the same. It's them and I against the executives. I like free software because people help each other readily. So that's my job: to help them, because they are sick and tired of using Suse. And yes, I still think there's a difference between the two scnearios: a clean source, 11 clean binaries, but one trojaned one against an unclean source and 12 unclean binaries. As someone else said, post-mortem it'll be *much* easier to deal with the latter. -- Please do not send copies of list mail to me; I read the list! .''`. martin f. krafft <madduck@debian.org> : :' : proud Debian developer, author, administrator, and user `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck - http://debiansystem.info `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems there are two groups of people in the world: those who believe that the world can be divided into two groups of people, and those who don't.
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