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Re: the business risks of Open Source ..

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____/ Doug Mentohl on Wednesday 25 February 2009 19:46 : \____

> "Our own research, however, has concluded that open source software
> exposes users to significant and unnecessary business risk, as the
> security is often overlooked, making users more vulnerable to security
> breaches,"
> 
> "That's not to say that commercial software isn't without risks, but any
> flaws on commercial applications tend to get patched a lot faster than
> on open source, as the vendors producing the software have a lot more to
> lose than an open source programmer,"
> 
>
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/020509-tories-ignoring-open-source-security.html
> 
> Targeted attack exploits zero-day Excel flaw ..
> 
> http://www.securityfocus.com/brief/664

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