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Security Innovation's Microsoft/Linux web server security study

Security Innovation's Microsoft/Linux web server security study

Posted Mar 23, 2005 15:43 UTC (Wed) by gnb (subscriber, #5132)
In reply to: Security Innovation's Microsoft/Linux web server security study by ballombe
Parent article: Security Innovation's Microsoft/Linux web server security study

That's still longer than you might hope. They may well have picked
the worst example they could find, but the point that need for the
fix to propagate from the upstream vendor to the distribution vendor
introduces delay is valid. Whether the end result is any worse than
the delay you get from some other large software companies is a separate
question.


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Security Innovation's Microsoft/Linux web server security study

Posted Mar 23, 2005 15:51 UTC (Wed) by shahms (subscriber, #8877) [Link]

Even if they picked the worst example they could find, they still exaggerated it by a month...

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