On Thu, 23 Mar 2006, Theo de Raadt wrote: > > Sendmail is, as we know, the most used daemon for SMTP in the world. This > > is an International Infrastructure vulnerability and should have been > > treated that way. It wasn't. It was handled not only poorly, but > > irresponsibly. > > You would probably expect me to the be last person to say that Sendmail > is perfectly within their rights. I have had a lot of problems with > what they are doing. > > But what did you pay for Sendmail? Was it a dollar, or was it more? Let > me guess. It was much less than a dollar. I bet you paid nothing. > > So does anyone owe you anything, let alone a particular process which > you demand with such length? So you are basically saying open source free software can't be trusted to hold high standards or be reliable or secure if I don't pay for it? > > Now, the same holds true with OpenSSH. I'll tell you what. If there > is ever a security problem (again :) in OpenSSH we will disclose it > exactly like we want, and in no other way, and quite frankly since > noone has ever paid a cent for it's development they have nothing they > can say about it. > > Dear non-paying user -- please remember your place. > > Or run something else. > > OK? > > Luckily within a few months you will be able to tell Sendmail how > to disclose their bugs because their next version is going to come > out with a much more commercial licence. Then you can pay for it, > and then you can complain too. >
