[wellylug] Opensouce "infectious" and should be "Quarantined" - NZ Government..

[Gerald Roehrbein]

Hello,

in the eighties I have had an ACER workstation. This have had two nice
features:

First it booted at 04:00pm.
Second it have had a built in Virus in it's BIOS.


In Germany the Bavarian government does not like to use Microsoft
software because a lot of components of the Microsoft OS are built by
companies related to scientology ruled companies (Rob Hubbard). They use
Linux.

In my opinion you have to have any time carefully with downloads and the
usage. I think what the NZ government spread is not correct it would
sound correct if they would say:

Downloading any third party software from the WEB is a risk and not only
Opensource. They won't hit the whole problem with their message!

Nobody should attach a production environement direct or indirect to the
world wide web because a firewall from a company have any time one port
free to forward internal informations to anybody:

PORT 80 and HTTP protocol.


kind regards 
Gerald





  

Am Samstag, den 04.03.2006, 21:24 +1300 schrieb Jo 'Mangee' Booth:
> Was reading the digg rss feed and noticed this one:
> <http://digg.com/software/ 
> New_Zealand_government_warns_against_using_open_source>
> 
> See the page at
> <http://www.e.govt.nz/policy/open-source/open-source-legal/>
> Have a read of the pdf..
> Hrm...
> 
> -Jo.