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To: ToySoldier who wrote (28055)	9/10/1999 12:26:00 PM
From: Bearded One	Read Replies (1) of 42771

Letting this love-fest continue, I agree with all your points and let me just add one more--- There are almost certainly several people who's job is to figure out ways to crack various operating systems for use by organized crime. They are not hampered by lack of access to equipment or copies of operating systems and they have no preference for which OS to crack other than the one to which they are assigned. Given the Windows world, if they discover a bug in Windows that's exploitable it could be years before anyone finds out about it. With open source systems you have the advantage of lots of people looking for bugs in your source code and offering patches. In general, I would venture that Novell's source code is probably less buggy than Windows NT (just looking at their releases and managment). But NDS and Netware are probably in the same boat as Windows NT as far as how long it will take Novell to discover an exploitable bug and fix it-- there just aren't thousands of people looking at the source code and finding bugs.

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