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January 1998, Week 4

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Mark Bixby <[log in to unmask]>
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Brian Manley writes:
> Although this may expose some security holes,
> I think this will only lead to a more secure product.  One needs
> to only look at the freeware Unix community to see how quickly
> things get fixed.

I agree.

Because of my Apache/iX work, I lurk on the Apache developers mailing list,
and I know first-hand that security bugs have patches available in maybe
about a day, if not hours after the bug surfaces.
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