Edmund Hillary, First on Everest, Dies at 88
Report: MySpace issued subpoena in teen suicide case
Open Source Security Bugs Uncovered
Online Video Sites Double Popularity in 2007
Asteroid Unlikely to Collide With Mars
NASA sets new February 7 launch date for shuttle
Scanning through the news items today, I got a glimpse of the above few.
I’m not going to express in this post How good I feel about Edmund Hillary or the pain and sympathy I had on reading about Online harrassment. Nor about the excitement cast off because of the asteroid not hitting Mars. 
Open Source Security flaws unveiled by Open Source Hardening Project. This is a subject of interest to me. I’m no open source guru. Nor am I an expert in proprietory software development model. But luckily, I’ve got the taste of both the worlds. A long lasting debate between FOSS gurus and companies: Open Source vs Proprietory Products. How many times had I heard this crap over and over?
Why should religion be brought into software? After all, a business is meant to make money no matter what your company’s vision and strategic direction might be. Do young open source Software Engineers lack the ability to step out and look at the overall picture?
This news item would definitely be an icing on the cake for companies giving out proprietory softwares. The new propaganda from their side which I heard in a recent meeting: “Does no virus till date mean, Linux is the most secure OS? Open Source Softwares have more security flaws than proprietory softwares. blah..blah..blah..”
Open source softwares have their own advantages. But they lack Customer focus. In proprietory softwares, a defect wouldn’t stay longer than the next patch cycle if a customer demands for a fix. This is one set back which is the main reason why companies think twice before adopting free softwares into their work environment.
I cannot reason out one thing: “Why would all Open Source enthusiasts target Microsoft as their villain when there are so many companies making proprietory softwares?”
