On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 11:15:34AM -0800, Shankar Unni wrote: >Jim Ramsay wrote: >>Ha! Ask that boss to prove to you that there is no security problem >>running Windows on a 'secure' network. > >To a person with that mentality, Bill Gates is implicitly trustworthy >(i.e. if he says it's true, it must be true by definition, because >it's a "big company that stands by its products"), while anything Open >Source is written by h4x0rs and thus must "prove its trustworthiness". > >How, you ask them? They don't know, but you'd better "know". No point >arguing with them..
Proving the trustworthiness of any important system is never a waste of time. Let me state again, for the record: cygwin is not secure. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/