Re: [LINK] Let's Sue Microsoft [Was: Code Red puts Microsoft in hot seat]

From: hartr@redhat.com
Date: Tue Aug 07 2001 - 12:09:01 EST


On 7 Aug, Adam Todd wrote:

> I can only IMAGINE what might have happened if I were to detail publicly
> the RedHat bug I copped so much flakt from so few individual last
> year. It was thanks to the advice form the MANY to keep my mouth shut
> that RedHat itself still exists as a product today. How long until the
> exploit is found is something I can't guess, and no doubt when people drop
> their ego (Microsoft included) and start working together rather than
> hamming each other in the corner, these exploit problems will cease to be
> problems.

Linkers

I am not going to regurgitate to the list the extensive prior
communication on this subject. It's all in the archives and my email to
Adam Todd and the link list of 19 May 2000 is probably a good place to
start the link archive search surrounding this still unsubstantiated
claim.

All I would add is that neither I personally, Red Hat as an organisation
(as far as I can trace) or the Linux community (again as far as I can
trace) have still not been given any sort of information by Adam Todd as
to the nature of this supposed compromise to the Linux kernel.

Adam - you make statements about 'working together' and yet you have
repeatedly refused to do just this, despite many invitations made
publicly (see the archives) and privately and which I now repeat here:

   Send me the details of this supposed compromise and it will be
   investigated immediately.

I believe that somewhere in the New Testament is the line:
        "By their actions shall ye know them."
upon which you might like to ponder if you fail to provide the
information you claim to have.

-- 
Robert Hart						 hartr@redhat.com
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