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Quote: You Are Absolutely Deluded

October 25, 2007 - 5:29am
Submitted by Jeremy on October 25, 2007 - 5:29am.

"You are absolutely deluded, if not stupid, if you think that a worldwide collection of software engineers who can't write operating systems or applications without security holes, can then turn around and suddenly write virtualization layers without security holes."

— Theo de Raadt in an October 24th, 2007 message on the OpenBSD -misc mailing list.

Amen to that, Theo :)

October 25, 2007 - 10:09am

Amen to that, Theo :)

Theo's way of dealing with

October 25, 2007 - 10:47am
Anonymous (not verified)

Theo's way of dealing with issues outside his utopia is to ignore them. Virtualization provides a great deal of value for many reasons.

Value

October 25, 2007 - 12:24pm
Anonymous (not verified)

Yes, and security isn't one of them.

They said value, as in cheap

October 25, 2007 - 3:23pm
Nony mouse (not verified)

They said value, as in cheap ;)

Value was never argued,

October 25, 2007 - 5:41pm
Anonymous (not verified)

Value was never argued, what's the point of your reply?

OpenBSD is more expensive

October 26, 2007 - 10:01am

If OpenBSD does not support "cheap" solutions then it's more expensive than the competing operating systems which do. It's that simple.

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