Re: Mac OS X vulnerabilities

From: Radoslav Dejanovic (radoslav.dejanovic_at_opsus.hr)
Date: 10/30/03

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    To: "Joshua Levitsky" <jlevitsk@joshie.com>, "Thor Larholm" <thor@pivx.com>, <bugtraq@securityfocus.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 11:43:55 +0100

    On Wednesday 29 October 2003 02:30 am, Joshua Levitsky wrote:

    > If Apple is responsible then we should see 10.2 patches backported. I think
    > it's reasonable that 10.3 patches come, and then 10.2 patches, and Apple
    > should have some Life Cycle policy to say if everything before 10.2 is EOL
    > or not. It's all a new world with Apple. Let us hope that they do not let
    > us down.

    As I mentioned to Thor in my previous e-mail (and got rejected by list admin
    because he thought I missed exactly that point), we should expect Apple
    patching 10.2 as well, because it still hasn't reached its EOL. I don't think
    Apple wouldn't release a patch for 10.2 but instead tell their customers to
    upgrade to 10.3. Such step is something that even Microsoft would fear of
    doing. It means simply rejecting huge userbase, essentially telling them to
    upgrade or be damned. No one with sane mind would do that, for it would lead
    to migrating to other platforms, and there's nothing on the server side that
    Mac OS X can give and Linux or BSD can't (expect the price and some other
    restrictions).
    But, as you said, Apple is still new in this U*x business (but Steve isn't!
    Remember NeXT!), but I'm sure they'll follow the business line of everyone
    else. Their user base is too precious to them to be lost because of
    arrogance. 

    -- 
Radoslav Dejanoviæ, founder and director
Operacijski sustavi d.o.o.     http://www.opsus.hr
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