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RE: Painful USA Today article (was RE: ANN: RESTTuto

• To: <veillard@r...>,"Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
• Subject: RE: Painful USA Today article (was RE: ANN: RESTTutorial)
• From: "Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@m...>
• Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 14:17:27 -0700
• Cc: "Dennis Sosnoski" <dms@s...>,<xml-dev@l...>
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• Thread-topic: Painful USA Today article (was RE: ANN: RESTTutorial)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Veillard [mailto:veillard@r...] 
> Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 1:59 PM
> To: Bullard, Claude L (Len)
> Cc: 'Dennis Sosnoski'; xml-dev@l...
> Subject: Re:  Painful USA Today article (was RE: 
>  ANN: RESTTutorial)
> 
> 
> Sorry, security is design based, the process of tranforming a 
> product not designed with security in mind by filling up the 
> gaps one by one as they get discovered on the customer 
> deployments is simply a pure (and sad) joke.
> 
>   Of course producers of closed source software would like 
> people to believe in this crap, but not here please !!!

Your comments are particularly interesting especially coming from a
RedHat employee since the motto of Open Source Software is "Release
Early, Release Often" while primarily relying on the "Many Eyes" theory.
My opinions of this are well documented here 

	http://features.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/02/15/1846214 

PS: I apologize to XML-DEVers for this offtopic thread and will returned
to my regular scheduled commenting on angle brackets, schemata and how
many XML standards can dance on the head of an RFP. :) 

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