Re: [Nolug] Purpose of the military?

On Sun, 2003-05-11 at 18:28, bad-magic-number wrote:
> > On Fri, 2003-05-09 at 11:59, Dustin Puryear wrote:
> > > At 11:18 AM 5/9/2003 -0500, you wrote:
> > > >On Fri, 2003-05-09 at 09:47, Michael Flora wrote:
> > > > > --- Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
[snip]
> > Heck, why not fund a *real* OS like VMS?
> >
> > Barring that, though, a *successful* free OS like Linux would be much
> > more useful.
>
> As some one else said, whipping out the flame thrower here, ehh ?
>
> But let's see, which OS had less major security exploits in seven years
> on a default install? I thought so.

If security was sooooo important, the Dominant OS Provider would
have made their OSs more secure long ago....

But seriously: who uses the default OpenBSD install? Extra services
must be turned on, for the box to be useful. For example: OpenSSH has
had quite a few security issues.

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| The purpose of the military isn't to pay your college tuition |
| or give you a little extra income; it's to "kill people and   |
| break things".  Surprisingly, not everyone understands that.  |
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