I find this speculation rather unlikely -- surely if they resigned in order to not cancel the patch, then the patch would die anyway due to no-one working on it?
I think the fact that they all left together pretty much rules out that first option. And NCA's tend to have ways around them, if they're even used in the first place. It's hard to make someone sign a document stating that if they leave the company they'll completely change career!:-)
I think we'll find them popping up together either in a newly formed company, or heading up a new team in another gaming house.
One thing found from digging through the ATI web site, while it is obviously in need of an update (note several references to the Linux drivers being available in the drivers section), there is mention of DRI Radeon drivers available at the Direct Rendering Open Source Project, with Linux Intel x86 drivers dated 2003-06-30.
I think telnet and ftp should be disabled across the world with very limited exceptions. All UNIX and Linux distros should have cleartext protocols disabled by default.
I would agree 100% with this, some *NIX flavours do this already, notable NetBSD and OpenBSD, and I suspect FreeBSD does also, though TBH that's guessing. With SSH available there really is no need that I can think of off hand (I'm sure someone can think up a counter argument) for telnet to still exist, and the only reason for plain ftp to still exist is because all those fully featured ftp clients (download managers, resumers, etc) are implemented with plain ftp instead of sftp. If they are well enough written however, it shouldn't take much effort to re-write these to use sftp instead.
While Kerberos is a definate improvement, the difference between telnet and SSH is far huger than the difference between SSH without Kerberos and SSH with Kerberos.
Given that I've suffered this myself, with a virus-free existence of some years, I suspect that my email address has been used on several occasions by spammers as a from address due to my use of Spamcop to attempt to report these spammers. This article really doesn't seem too well researched I'm afraid.
Surely the main question here is the purpose for the comparison, and the reason for the choice of these three products. As they seem to have chosen the winner based largely on (a.) "high hardware compatibility" and (b.) "strong security integration", they could have included OSes such as NetBSD for the first, and OpenBSD for the second. Plus of course OS X, and some of the other more advanced OSes. Limiting the comparison to three only really makes it rather meaningless.
As an ex-Telstra Bigpond customer with an email address that was not possible to obtain with a dictionary attack, and with that email address never being used for anything other than receiving the odd bit of email from the ISP directly, I can confirm that within a month or two I was receiving half a dozen spams a day on that email address. No other email address I've used (including my main that got used for about a dozen years before having to retire) ever came even close to this much email that quickly. Combined with the behaviour otherwise exhibited by Telstra I am convinced that their email lists are made available, whether by deliberate sale or simply poorly controlled networks, I can't say.
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I find this speculation rather unlikely -- surely if they resigned in order to not cancel the patch, then the patch would die anyway due to no-one working on it?
I think the fact that they all left together pretty much rules out that first option. And NCA's tend to have ways around them, if they're even used in the first place. It's hard to make someone sign a document stating that if they leave the company they'll completely change career! :-)
I think we'll find them popping up together either in a newly formed company, or heading up a new team in another gaming house.
One thing found from digging through the ATI web site, while it is obviously in need of an update (note several references to the Linux drivers being available in the drivers section), there is mention of DRI Radeon drivers available at the Direct Rendering Open Source Project, with Linux Intel x86 drivers dated 2003-06-30.
I think telnet and ftp should be disabled across the world with very limited exceptions. All UNIX and Linux distros should have cleartext protocols disabled by default.
I would agree 100% with this, some *NIX flavours do this already, notable NetBSD and OpenBSD, and I suspect FreeBSD does also, though TBH that's guessing. With SSH available there really is no need that I can think of off hand (I'm sure someone can think up a counter argument) for telnet to still exist, and the only reason for plain ftp to still exist is because all those fully featured ftp clients (download managers, resumers, etc) are implemented with plain ftp instead of sftp. If they are well enough written however, it shouldn't take much effort to re-write these to use sftp instead. While Kerberos is a definate improvement, the difference between telnet and SSH is far huger than the difference between SSH without Kerberos and SSH with Kerberos.
Given that I've suffered this myself, with a virus-free existence of some years, I suspect that my email address has been used on several occasions by spammers as a from address due to my use of Spamcop to attempt to report these spammers. This article really doesn't seem too well researched I'm afraid.
Surely the main question here is the purpose for the comparison, and the reason for the choice of these three products. As they seem to have chosen the winner based largely on (a.) "high hardware compatibility" and (b.) "strong security integration", they could have included OSes such as NetBSD for the first, and OpenBSD for the second. Plus of course OS X, and some of the other more advanced OSes. Limiting the comparison to three only really makes it rather meaningless.
As an ex-Telstra Bigpond customer with an email address that was not possible to obtain with a dictionary attack, and with that email address never being used for anything other than receiving the odd bit of email from the ISP directly, I can confirm that within a month or two I was receiving half a dozen spams a day on that email address. No other email address I've used (including my main that got used for about a dozen years before having to retire) ever came even close to this much email that quickly. Combined with the behaviour otherwise exhibited by Telstra I am convinced that their email lists are made available, whether by deliberate sale or simply poorly controlled networks, I can't say.