Re: Positive press for Debian's security team
On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 01:20:09 +0200,
Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 04:59:36PM -0600, Jones wrote:
>>Positive press for Debian's security team.
>>
>>Using numbers from a pair of metrics, Forrester Research's
>>recommendation was "businesses that value quick patches look to
>>Microsoft and Debian".
>
> That's positive? They put us in the same category as Microsoft! This
> will lose us some serious street cred. :)
>
Microsoft got good marks for releasing a patch soon after they announce
a vulnerability.
Never mind if said vulnerability was known about and pointed out to MS 6
months ago. Acccording to FR, the clock only started when MS made the
announcement of it.
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A bureaucracy is like a septic tank -- all the really big shits float
to the top.
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