[LINK] OSS means slower patches

[Con Zymaris]

On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 09:51:19PM +1000, Deus Ex Machina wrote:
> 
> http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,16650762%5E15306%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html
> 
> "THE growing popularity of open-source browsers and software may be
> responsible for the increasing gap between the exposure of a
> vulnerability and the provision of patch to fix it, security software
> vendor Symantec has said."


Soooo, the more users, the slower the patch materialises?

That makes sense. Not.

And it's not as if Symantec hasn't got a vested interest. They wouldn't 
exist as a company today if most users used Linux/FOSS.


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