Of course, the article about the history of open source and its developments was unfortunately left uncomplete. I guess it's good that Back Orifice 2000 had this nice press release written up for them, but really, it's interesting that the two would be thrown into the mix together.
" Trojan horse programs concealed inside open source code could create new security headaches for IT managers. "
This is an intersting opening paragraph. Pretending the average person read this article, this would stick out most in their mind. I wouldn't be surprised if the average thoughts of that average person went something like this while they read the first paragraph: `Hmm... Open Source movements have been going on, a lot of things are Open Source, and it seems to be a really new idea... What's this? Oh No! Trojan Horses are going to be in these open source projects? Forget that, gimme something I have to pay thousands of dollars for.' Just what we (assuming `we' is involved in open sourcing things) need, don't you think? A nice little mud splattered onto the images of our respective projects. It's unfortunate that companies can sue for libel when stuff like this happens, and individuals can as well, but when it happens to a group of hard working geeks, all we seem to do is sit around and complain on slashdot about it. Of course, maybe someone more ambitious than me just read that article, and demanded a correction from the author to be posted on the front page of that news source. Man, I was so enjoying this day, too. And then I had to read crap like that.
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Of course, the article about the history of open source and its developments was unfortunately left uncomplete. I guess it's good that Back Orifice 2000 had this nice press release written up for them, but really, it's interesting that the two would be thrown into the mix together.
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Trojan horse programs concealed inside open source code could create new security headaches for IT managers.
"
This is an intersting opening paragraph. Pretending the average person read this article, this would stick out most in their mind. I wouldn't be surprised if the average thoughts of that average person went something like this while they read the first paragraph:
`Hmm... Open Source movements have been going on, a lot of things are Open Source, and it seems to be a really new idea... What's this? Oh No! Trojan Horses are going to be in these open source projects? Forget that, gimme something I have to pay thousands of dollars for.'
Just what we (assuming `we' is involved in open sourcing things) need, don't you think? A nice little mud splattered onto the images of our respective projects.
It's unfortunate that companies can sue for libel when stuff like this happens, and individuals can as well, but when it happens to a group of hard working geeks, all we seem to do is sit around and complain on slashdot about it. Of course, maybe someone more ambitious than me just read that article, and demanded a correction from the author to be posted on the front page of that news source.
Man, I was so enjoying this day, too. And then I had to read crap like that.
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