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Re: CDE for Linux
From: bandregg () REDHAT COM (bandregg () REDHAT COM)
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 21:43:22 -0400
On Thu, 22 Oct 1998 16:11:50 -0700, Susan Carney wrote:
As many of you know, in September Red Hat announced that Netscape and Intel were taking equity positions in Red Hat. Also, within this month all commercial products that Red Hat sold were dropped. The leading ones were TED and Applix. They were dropped for different reasons.
I can personally attest that these two events are unrelated and to see them mentioned in the same paragraph is gross innuendo.
On September 25, 1998 Red Hat announced that they were dropping their CDE product (TED) because of a "security hole". They cited the following CERT: http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-98.11.tooltalk.html In actuality, TriTeal and Red Hat were in discussions about fixing this CERT, and updating the product to a more current version. But, instead they decided to drop the product. In my opinion I think they wanted to remain an open source product - and thus dropped both TED and Applix.
While it is true that Red Hat is dedicated to Open Source software and certainly moving in that direction it is also true that the costs involved in fixing a product so horribly insecure and not being able to release the source fixes was the main reason. After all, we aren't giving refunds just because we sold a binary only product. -- Bryan C. Andregg * <bandregg () redhat com> * Red Hat Software "Hey, wait a minute, you clowns are on dope!" -- Owen Cheese in 'Shakes the Clown'
Current thread:
- solaris tape dev permission stupidity joshua grubman (Oct 21)
- Re: solaris tape dev permission stupidity Michael R. Eckhoff (Oct 21)
- Re: solaris tape dev permission stupidity Casper Dik (Oct 22)
- Vulnerability in IRIX autofsd SGI Security Coordinator (Oct 22)
- CDE for Linux Susan Carney (Oct 22)
- Re: CDE for Linux bandregg () REDHAT COM (Oct 23)
- New SMAP + SASL + SSL Patches available. MacGyver (Oct 22)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: solaris tape dev permission stupidity Robert Thomas (Oct 21)
- Re: solaris tape dev permission stupidity Darren J Moffat - Enterprise Services OS Product Support Group (Oct 22)
- Re: solaris tape dev permission stupidity Tobias J. Kreidl (Oct 23)