[cobalt-security] OSS passing something alright

["Jonathan Mergy" <mergy@xxxxxxxxx>]

paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
>Ok, It's an apache problem, but was apache created by someone in the free 
>source world or was it made with the OS?.
>Don't answer that I was being a smart ass :)
>
>Why does everyone in the open source world "pass the buck" as it were?

You have to be joking. I know you are just doing this to egg people on,
but I am biting. I suggest you go pay top dollar to good-ole closed source
company solutions like IIS from MS. That seems to be the way you look at
the relationship between yourself and open source - the gimmie gimmie
mentality. 

Open Source happens to be free software but that is not its best
attribute. I am sure MS will gladly take your credit card number for a
support call and after an hour tell you to uninstall and reinstall and
reboot then go to windows update and repeat until you go away.

Open Source software gives you tools and visibility to do what you want to
do and extend and give back to the community with insights and experiences
that you have discovered so you can possibly help others not hit those
hurdles all the while getting some of these experiences back in return.
(Add tons more positive, good-karma stuff and things here).

I would finish this email, but I need to go back to Home Depot and
complain about the tools I got from them. I didn't take the time to read
the manual and I can't get them to work with my car. It would really
bother me if they didn't take responsibility for that. 



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jonathan mergy
mergy@xxxxxxxxx