On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 6:22 PM, Kyle Drake  wrote:

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> On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 3:10 PM, Nick Guenther  wrote:

>>

>> Anyway, I don't think of OpenBSD as a 'secure' system, I think of it

>> as a 'correct' system, and security is a side effect of that that's

>> good for marketing. Doesn't seem like Linus gets that.

>

> That's the comedy of it though, isn't it? Most bugs (security-related

> or otherwise) are just incorrect programming. Squashing bugs helps to

> resolve both reliability and security problems. The OpenBSD team

> resolves both.. whether they're trying to fix "only security" bugs or

> not is kindof irrelevant, because they're still fixing both by fixing

> either.

>

> At any rate, I gave up a long time ago caring what the Linux dorks

> think about our masturbatory cult of correctness. I think these

> off-comments are funny, and personally I'm all about my/our

> competition using crap operating systems just because they're trendy.

> Meanwhile we all get the reputation of running reliable businesses

> that get shit done and aren't just fucking around.

(And some of us aren't ever planning on running businesses, but we

still are drawn by the elegance.)

(-Nick)