"Protected" -- for how long? [LWN.net]

"Protected" -- for how long?

Posted Apr 27, 2009 17:36 UTC (Mon) by dersteppenwolf (guest, #58226)
In reply to: "Protected" -- for how long? by hppnq
Parent article: The details on loading rootkits via /dev/mem

You are right, I don't really understand the business model behind Red Hat. It's quite a challenging thing to understand how a corporation gets away with making a profit from the work of helpful and altruist volunteers world-wide.

And in a similar path of reasoning, I don't understand how Linux (especially 2.6) could end up being used in a corporate environment. With all due respect, it's a theme park version of an operating system core. The rollercoaster gives you a huge thrill, but you throw up anyway.

Regarding your comment, It was indeed pretty awesome, man.

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"Protected" -- for how long?

Posted Apr 27, 2009 23:58 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] (1 responses)

Thus speaks someone who's never seen high-end financial software used to
throw umpty-trillions around the world.

Believe me, Linux is a glittering icon of perfection next to most of
*that* appalling grot. (I don't even need to mention the major settlement
system whose core was for many years an umpty-thousand-line shell
script... but I'm going to anyway because I want to make you feel as ill
as I do.)

"Protected" -- for how long?

Posted Apr 28, 2009 3:07 UTC (Tue) by dersteppenwolf (guest, #58226) [Link]

Thanks for giving me cancer. Can we get back to discussing why Linux is flawed because their developers choose it to be that way? Even goddamn Vista is safer at the moment. That's kind of a shame.