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Is Open Source Fertile Ground for Foul Play?
jsrjsr writes "In an article DevX.com entitled Open Source Is Fertile Ground for Foul Play, W. Russell Jones argues that open source software is bad stuff. He argues that open source software, because of its very openness, will inevitably lead to security concerns. He says that this makes adoption of open source software by governments particularly worrisome. In his words: 'An old adage that governments would be well-served to heed is: You get what you pay for. When you rely on free or low-cost products, you often get the shaft, and that, in my opinion, is exactly what governments are on track to get.'"
Igniting flame war in 5...4...we have main engine start...3...2...ignition!...1...
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
The whole thread that will light-up in response to this old chestnut!
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
1) Write bogus article that will enrage slashdotters. Slashdot, being knee-jerk as it is, posts it to the front page.
2) Get a bazillion hits.
3) PLOFIT!
Netcraft says that his server (running IIS) has only been up for 2 days.
I wonder if he's getting what he paid for.
Wow, an insightful first post.
This day will go down in history.
He argues that open source software, because of its very openness, will inevitably lead to security concerns.
Well, thankfully Windows is closed-source, or else there'd be security issues wi-- oh, hang on a sec.
devx.com
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 21:06:06 GMT
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
In other news, the devx.com website was found lying in its own blood and excrement after being linked from Slashdot.ORG today.
you might remember from other high quality works, like...
.NET with VB .NET, Visual Basic Developer's Guide to Asp and IIS,
Mastering ASP
and...
How To Kill Penguins With Broken Shards of Windows.
*YAWN*
http://windows.scares.us
Someday he hopes to be The Russell Jones.
Mod the above down as flaimbait.
...his article is freely available.
"We need a new term for this kind of journalistic troll."
No talent assclown.
So, I guess I shouldn't take any of it seriously.
Glog!
DevX.com has reported a recent drop off in website hits and has implemented a campaign to "leverage" the Slashdot masses.
...
The new project entitled "Flaming Troll" was kicked off today with an article that would be very interesting and informative for your average Slashdot reader.
So far the project seems to be a success
Close, but you misspelled it. Its: F-u-c-k-t-a-r-d
Urinalist?
The "cue the foo posts in 3, 2, 1..." posts will commence with no subsequent foo posts in 3, 2, 1...
Exactly. How do we know that the original wasn't actually a logical, intelligent article, and that this copy isn't actually an evil corruption due to it being freely available for modification?
That was a piss poor article!