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[News] Research Shows That Open Source Patching Quicker (More Secure)

  • Subject: [News] Research Shows That Open Source Patching Quicker (More Secure)
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 12:53:17 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Open source vs. proprietary software bugs: which get squashed fastest?

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| The open-source development process is much, much faster at fixing bugs than 
| the proprietary-software development process. Days faster, in fact. 
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http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9786034-16.html

Without patches, there's trouble...

WabiSabi Labi aims to be more than an eBay for zero-days

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| "By releasing this zero-day information you put customers at risk," said 
| Alexander Kornbrust, the managing director of Red Database Security and a 
| researcher credited with uncovering dozens of security holes in Oracle 
| databases.   
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20070925/tc_infoworld/92072

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