Security and Free Software

Reinhard Mueller mueller at fsfeurope.org
Tue Sep 21 10:54:50 UTC 2004


Am Die, den 21.09.2004 schrieb Andres K. Foerster um 12:20:
> But I was really surprised, when I read the recent interview with Theo de 
> Raadt (founder of OpenBSD). He comes to the conclusion: 
> "The source code doesn't make a difference.  You can get the source code 
> for anything today and an attacker can find vulnerabilities.  The fact 
> of the matter is, there is no more closed source there is just limited 
> open source."
> 
> The whole article can be found here:
> http://www.computerworld.com.au/nindex.php/id;1498222899;fp;16;fpid;0
> 
> How do you think about this interview?

Spontaneously, I think it shows how important it is to speak about Free
Software, and how ambigous the term "Open Source" is.

Thanks,
-- 
Reinhard Mueller
Free Software Foundation Europe
http://www.fsfeurope.org
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