From: "Adam Flinton" 

What is more with OSS can earn "kudos" by submitting / publishing
that patch
& possibly fixing the flaw for all & sundry...

Help people & they're more likely to help you 

Adam

"Thees Peereboom"  wrote in message
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> Geo,
>
> >The question should really be what is the difference between a published
> >flaw in IIS and a flaw in IIS that only the evil hackers know about.. If
you
> >ask it that way I think the difference becomes obvious.
>
> Exactly, the more known, the better. But OSS adds an additional
> advantage to that, not only can users defend themselves (by at least
> knowing that there is a flaw) but they can also repair it themselves
> while users of branded software will have to wait for their vendor to
> acknowledge the flaw and secondly send out a fix for it.
>
> - Thees Peereboom

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