[WEB4LIB] Re: next big thing?

[Dobbs, Aaron]

I suspect open source is not the only source for bugs & complexities.
Privacy & security holes are being discovered and exploited more frequently
these days and the recend BIND (DNS) discovery will only multiply the
problem.

The more complex a system the more room for bugs (or undocumented features
if you will)

I feel the sentiment below is more pragmatic than fatalistic.  Accept that
there will be problems and apply the fixes as they are developed.  There
will always be something that can be improved.  And there will always be a
way for someone to get where they aren't supposed to be.  The biological
metaphor really does work for Technology.

-Aaron
:-)'
"Pear Pimples for Hairy Fishnuts!?!"
-Opus

-----Original Message-----
From: John Creech [mailto:creechj at mumbly.lib.cwu.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 1:10 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Re: next big thing?


On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Mark Pecaut wrote:

> Let me offer a gloom and doom perspective:
> - more privacy problems
> - software that is more buggy and complicated
> - more security problems
> 
> These are all interrelated.  Here is a happy perspective:
> - more free, high quality software.

Mark, out of curiousity, are you referring at least partially to open
source?  Thanks.

John Creech, CWU Library