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Re: Internet Worm
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Mon Oct 17 19:36:10 1994
To: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@kryten.Atinc.COM>
Cc: bugtraq@fc.net
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 17 Oct 1994 15:27:36 EDT."
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Reply-To: perry@imsi.com
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 1994 18:02:17 -0400
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@imsi.com>
"Jonathan M. Bresler" says:
> BUGGER the vendors. what with FreeBSD, linux, NetBSD, 4.4BSD
> Lite and the rest of source code available UNIX operating systems. get
> the source. read the source. use the source. after all its ours now!
> the owner-de-jour of the code has declared 4.4BSD Lite free of taint.
[...]
> anyone want to create drop in replacement packages for sun, sgi
> and the rest of the hardware vendors?
Try fixing a kernel bug with non-vendor sources. Hell, try fixing most
problems with non-vendor sources. Furthermore, my clients pay lots of
money for software support so that they don't have to fix the problems
themselves. Frankly, I think you are absolutely and completely wrong
on this.
.pm
