CSRSS is an essential subsystem of Windows that manages most Windows graphical commands. It wasn't rewritten. ANI, on the other hand, is a trivial program that animates cursors. It wasn't rewritten either. So what are we to think? After years of work, after years of being told Microsoft was making security job one, Windows users are stuck with the same old, same old when it comes to security.He didn't deny that Open Source application or operating system has bugs on it (in fact, every software have their own bugs), but he pointed on how fast the patches are ready in Open Source development compared to Microsoft's monthly cycles. While they are testing the patches, the exploits would have spread via Internet and targeting unpatched system and resulting big loss to many individuals and companies.
Sunday, April 15, 2007
Should Vista be Open-Sourced?
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols from Linux-Watch has wrote an article about Dear Mr. Gates: save Vista, open-source it. In this article, he gave several reason why Microsoft should open source vista and let everybody contribute to the core code for better quality and security handling. He predicted that Vista would have serious security problems and it does, with this month's security release (related to CSRSS and GDI) that includes Vista on it (and probably more will come next month. Here's a text from the original site which described one of the reason why Vista should be open-sourced:
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And then what? Will Vista branched out like Linux in which there will be millions of "Vista-distribution"?
ReplyDeleteAnd out of those many distributions, will it has a different security release for each different distributions like many open source product out there?
No thank you, let's just leave Vista as it is right now. Mind you, I'm not a user of vista, still uses XP for my business use, Mac for my leisure use, and Ubuntu for any ecommerce transaction.
Me too still likes XP rather than Vista. It requires new hardware in order to have the new Aero component.
ReplyDeleteI still love my XP and Slackware-Current though :D
Yeah, right. After putting the entire Redmond campus through hell for the last 2 years Microsoft makes Vista open source? I don't think so. Better if Mr. Vaughan-Nichols suggest that Win95 or Win98 be given free to Third World Countries. That would make better sense. My 2 cents. Salam Kenal Pak Willy. [TH].
ReplyDeleteI know. Microsoft has dropped their support for Windows 95/98 and i think it's best to be given free, but we must understand that probably some code from 95/98 is still lurking in Windows XP or probably worse in Vista, so i don't think Microsoft will let them go anyway.
ReplyDeleteSalam kenal juga :D