[Gllug] Financial Times - could Linux dethrone the software king?

John Hearns john.hearns at cern.ch
Wed Jan 22 12:11:55 UTC 2003


On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 10:01, Chris Ball wrote:
> >> On 2003-01-22, Peter Childs <blue.dragon at blueyonder.co.uk> said:
> 
>    > I love Microsoft statment that Linux is yet to face the Hacking
>    > problem. Havn't they reliesed yet that bacuase its open source,
>    > there is NOTHING to hack, no holes barred and therefore no point
>    > in hacking it.
> 
> I assume you'll be sending your personal and corporate root passwords to
> the list via separate cover, right?

Toungue-in-cheek reply.
Wasn't it Richard M Stallman who was appalled when passwords were
introduced on the system he was working on at MIT?
He believed all software should be free. Leading to the start of the
free software movement.

Big, enormous, huge :-)



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