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Re: Networking Pearl Harbor in the Making
From: Todd Vierling <tv () duh org>
Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 12:16:58 -0500 (EST)
On Mon, 7 Nov 2005, Christian Kuhtz wrote:
How so? Haven't we recently seen an across the board bug in multiple version of $vendor code?And that's evidence of what other than nobody is willing to pay for what it takes to get better code out of $vendor? Code can be built better. It just isn't always economical to do so.
In some business models. Financial reports regularly hint that $vendor has margins far exceeding the costs necessity to clean up security-critical code. When the aggregate margins drop thanks to folks choosing $vendor2 because $vendor has decided to let security flaws stew, it's time for $vendor to reevaluate that business model -- at least a little. -- -- Todd Vierling <tv () duh org> <tv () pobox com> <todd () vierling name>
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- Re: Networking Pearl Harbor in the Making, (continued)
- Re: Networking Pearl Harbor in the Making Tom Sands (Nov 07)
- Re: Networking Pearl Harbor in the Making Warren Kumari (Nov 07)
- Re: Networking Pearl Harbor in the Making Michael . Dillon (Nov 08)
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- Re: Networking Pearl Harbor in the Making Roy S. Rapoport (Nov 08)
- Re: Networking Pearl Harbor in the Making Simon Waters (Nov 07)
- Re: Networking Pearl Harbor in the Making Christian Kuhtz (Nov 07)
- RE: Networking Pearl Harbor in the Making Michael . Dillon (Nov 07)
- Re: Networking Pearl Harbor in the Making Christian Kuhtz (Nov 07)
- Re: Networking Pearl Harbor in the Making Todd Vierling (Nov 07)
- Re: Networking Pearl Harbor in the Making Christian Kuhtz (Nov 07)
- Re: Networking Pearl Harbor in the Making Chris Woodfield (Nov 07)
- Re: Networking Pearl Harbor in the Making Joseph S D Yao (Nov 07)
- Re: Networking Pearl Harbor in the Making Joseph S D Yao (Nov 07)
- Re: Networking Pearl Harbor in the Making Edward B. Dreger (Nov 11)