Re: Internet Worm

[perry () imsi com (Perry E. Metzger)]

"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