__/ [ Robert Newson ] on Tuesday 06 February 2007 20:22 \__
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> The Enterprise Committer: When Your Employee Develops Open-Source Code on
>> the Company Payroll
>>
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>> | This is not occurring in a bastion of open-source freedom; Marechal's
>> | company (which is a household word) has no open-source policy.
>> | Everything is proprietary. "As far as upper management knows, it's a 100
>> | percent Microsoft shop
>
> They'd better get rid of Microsoft Windwos as well - it contains OSS (BSD)
> code.[1]
>
> [1] Or has things like winsock been rewritten to remove every last trace of
> the BSD code?
It's possible, but this means that the new code is untested and immature,
just like the rest of the O/S, whose many bugs led to customer backlash.
Symantec Finds Flaws In Vista's Network Stack
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| Researchers with Symantec's advanced threat team poked through
| Vista's new network stack in several recent builds of the
| still-under-construction operating system, and found several bugs
| -- some of which have been fixed, including a few in Monday's
| release -- as well as broader evidence that the rewrite of the
| networking code could easily lead to problems.
|
| [...]
|
| Among Newsham's and Hoagland's conclusions: "The amount of new
| code present in Windows Vista provides many opportunities for
| new defects."
|
| "It's true that some of the things we found were 'low-hanging
| fruit,' and that some are getting fixed in later builds,"
| said Friedrichs. "But that begs the question of what else
| is in there?"
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http://www.techweb.com/wire/security/190700049;jsessionid=MWLALDT21M1...
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