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From: gritton@renegade.et.byu.edu (Jamie Gritton)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: List of OpenBSD changes
Date: 09 Aug 1996 16:36:22 GMT
Organization: Brigham Young University, Provo UT USA
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In-reply-to: deraadt@theos.com's message of 08 Aug 1996 20:42:08 GMT

deraadt@theos.com (Theo de Raadt) writes:

> For brevity, these lists contain only MAJOR changes.  There isn't any
> point in listing the 100+ buffer overflows in setuid programs which
> we've fixed...
...
> Many many NetBSD PR's fixed (which NetBSD has not yet fixed)

   But I really like the part in his web page where he claims a major
goal of OpenBSD is that it is "politics-free".  With his listed
improvements (some actually are improvements), I might be tempted to
check out OpenBSD if there wasn't such an obvious attitude problem
showing.
--
James Gritton - gritton@byu.edu - I disclaim - "