Re: Video editing in Linux?

From: Andy Fraser (andyfraser31_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 10/28/04 

Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:16:32 +0100

In alt.comp.linux, Ian Molton uttered these immortal words:

Followup-To set to alt.comp.linux.

>> You can if a security hole remains unfixed. You could easily break into
>> Windows via a CSS app if there's an unfixed security hole too. IME OSS
>> security holes are usually fixed within days and CSS security holes can
>> take months or longer. Of course YMMV.
>
> Based on his other comments he clearly believes that if you can get
> 'access to' the source, you can find the holes faster (which is true),

That's what I thought too.

> whilst forgetting that so can the developers using the same source...

Or indeed any one of us who chooses to look at the source. That's an
advantage that the closed source world will never have.

It seems to me that SjT doesn't really know what he's on about or at least
doesn't understand.

I like to give someone a chance to explain why they're saying what they're
saying. Maybe they have a point and aren't expressing it too well although
I'm not sure that applies here. 

-- 
Andy.

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