From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

"Tony Williams"  wrote in message
news:3DE7AAB4.7010606{at}blarg.net...
> That's where the open source peer-review comes into play. If I
> publish a fix for a security exploit you can safely bet that it's going
> to be  widely scrutinised. As opposed to a closed source fix
> where you're back  to having only the vendor's word to rely on.

Did you notice that you used the words "safely bet"? I don't
think that's any better than "safely betting" that MS has done
good job in fixing one of their problems. I either have a closed source
vendor's word, or a bunch of open source programmer's words to rely on.


Antti Kurenniemi

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