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[Interesting note: this is the 100th item in b/i/t/s....]

I'm not sure I really care about Linus's opinion, other than I mostly find
it annoying.  Mostly because I find him kind of annoying.  Mostly because I
find him about as arrogant as Theo Deraddt.  Which is pretty annoying.  The
guy wrote a kernel, that doesn't make him da Vinci.  But I digress....

The issue with security bugs is that they allow other people to influence
your system with malicious intent.  Thus, I disagree that they aren't more
important, because history has shown that there are people who can, and
will, exercise malicious intent and exploit those bugs to destroy or corrupt
your data.  That's bad.  Sure, it's bad when a buggy disk or application
crashes my machine, but there's nothing overtly malicious about it.

resp:3 I sort of disagree, as for a while, one of the BSDs (I think it
might have been OpenBSD) was releasing security advisories about ported
applications.  Maybe it was FreeBSD; I honestly cannot remember.  FreeBSD
certainly seems like the premier distribution in the BSD Unix world.

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