* Marc Espie  [2008-07-17 01:19:59]:
> On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 07:47:54PM +0100, Nuno Magalhces wrote:

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> > Eheh he's right :-) If you guys get your heads out of your asses and

> > actually read his words with the use of some common sense you might

> > get what he means. It's a balanced opinion.

> >

>

> It's a totally misinformed opinion.

>

> Quoting

> >In fact, all the boring normal bugs are _way_ more important, just because

> >there's a lot more of them. I don't think some spectacular security hole

> >should be glorified or cared about as being any more "special" than a

> >random spectacular crash due to bad locking.

>

> which is exactly what people in the OpenBSD project do, all the time (fix

> normal bugs). That's the proactive approach to security: don't wait until

> you have an exploit, just fix the darn bug.

>

> So, when he tries to say that the OpenBSD crowd has a different attitude,

> I don't know who he's referring to, but certainly not me.

>

> I don't think you have any idea how hard we're laughing right now.

> It's just so out of touch with how we see things, it's beyond pathetic.

>

> As you can see, my fellow developpers took it about the same way, but

> with even more sarcasm...

>

> we don't give a fuck about security for security's sake:

>

> free, FUNCTIONAL, secure. choose all three. Says so on the T-shirt.

>

> 

Jah.  Wow Linus, apparently making your code such that it is actually

stable and working is not a priority?  Infact, itstead of not being

a priority at all its actually considered BAD?
Linus is a nutjob!
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