On Tue, 2014-02-11 at 20:36 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > So if there's a backdoor in your kernel images, show us the code. ;-)
Source and binary could differ (not allowed, but they could differ illegally) and even if they won't, on kernel.org the source is under watching of a huge community, this is the only way to ensure that there is no backdoor part of the source. To release the source code is important for several reasons, but IMO small distros with no money shouldn't be forced to make all the source code available by a repository. For "Phoronix Media", "the largest Internet media company devoted to enriching the Linux hardware experience" [1], this perhaps isn't an issue? However, they are a third party and seems to have some interests, while I don't know what their interests are. [1] http://www.phoronix-media.com/index.php?k=contact http://www.phoronix-media.com/index.php?k=about -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1392149105.1020.35.camel@archlinux
