Because the patches are open source, it will be very easy for bad people to reverse engineer the fixes and create the attack.
I think it interesting that this problem was worked on for two months in secret. If it had been a Microsoft security hole, the exploit would have been maliciously published the day it was discovered.
Yes, this handwringing over interpretation of the GPL reads like internal correspondence between Microsoft and their legal department.
The earlier comments from the gentleman lamenting, "Give him a chance...let's not eat our young" could very well be a conversation between Microsoft and its PR department.
Reports elsewhere in this thread about rampant violation of the GPL by employers seeking to lift GPL'd code for their own financial gain sounds just like Microsoft talking to the BSA.
If the GPL can be freely violated, it is useless. Now that we know people are violating the GPL, it will be interesting to see someone try to enforce it -- and to watch them get tagged for strongarming.
The enforcer should make sure they apply enforcement equally or they will be accused of being a "bully" and exposed to more lawsuits. Ah, yes, FSF, wait until the lawsuits begin against you.
Reading/. is becoming more and more like a working at a Fisher-Price version of Microsoft.
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So when a guy writes a story praising Linux, we can discount his opinion completely if he ever wrote any books about Linux. So all these comments Gosling has made about C# should be discounted because he "wrote the book" on Java. Everything Gosling says is PR for Sun, right?
The funny thing about this is that Microsoft will tell you that Latin America enjoys about a 99% piracy rate. They don't pay for anything! They don't have anything! Christ, they're lucky if they can get burlap condoms. And they steal those! My slightly-oveweight-bearded-chief scientist wannabes, software is the least of the problems facing these banditos.
So it's a big loss for MS? Uh, okay.
Now I suppose Richard Stallman would say, "excellent, now the GPL will allow these countries to use software legally without MS turning them into felons", but then the flip side of that is, these highbrow federales who mandated Software Libre would also think nothing about jailing Richard Stallman, forcing him to wear a dress, and making him dance in a suggestive fashion. Cuánto para el genio de MacCarthur, senor?
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Because the patches are open source, it will be very easy for bad people to reverse engineer the fixes and create the attack.
I think it interesting that this problem was worked on for two months in secret. If it had been a Microsoft security hole, the exploit would have been maliciously published the day it was discovered.
Yes, this handwringing over interpretation of the GPL reads like internal correspondence between Microsoft and their legal department.
/. is becoming more and more like a working at a Fisher-Price version of Microsoft.
The earlier comments from the gentleman lamenting, "Give him a chance...let's not eat our young" could very well be a conversation between Microsoft and its PR department.
Reports elsewhere in this thread about rampant violation of the GPL by employers seeking to lift GPL'd code for their own financial gain sounds just like Microsoft talking to the BSA.
If the GPL can be freely violated, it is useless. Now that we know people are violating the GPL, it will be interesting to see someone try to enforce it -- and to watch them get tagged for strongarming.
The enforcer should make sure they apply enforcement equally or they will be accused of being a "bully" and exposed to more lawsuits. Ah, yes, FSF, wait until the lawsuits begin against you.
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So when a guy writes a story praising Linux, we can discount his opinion completely if he ever wrote any books about Linux. So all these comments Gosling has made about C# should be discounted because he "wrote the book" on Java. Everything Gosling says is PR for Sun, right?
The funny thing about this is that Microsoft will tell you that Latin America enjoys about a 99% piracy rate. They don't pay for anything! They don't have anything! Christ, they're lucky if they can get burlap condoms. And they steal those! My slightly-oveweight-bearded-chief scientist wannabes, software is the least of the problems facing these banditos.
So it's a big loss for MS? Uh, okay.
Now I suppose Richard Stallman would say, "excellent, now the GPL will allow these countries to use software legally without MS turning them into felons", but then the flip side of that is, these highbrow federales who mandated Software Libre would also think nothing about jailing Richard Stallman, forcing him to wear a dress, and making him dance in a suggestive fashion. Cuánto para el genio de MacCarthur, senor?