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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: SCO doesn't sell UNIX
Message-ID: <2545@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 9 Dec 90 14:55:58 GMT
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In article <2341@tabbs.UUCP> aris@tabbs.UUCP (Aris Stathakis) writes:

| Ya, I don't like it either, but I can live with it.  If we like it or not,
| we're going to have to live with a more secure UNIX.  End users will be
| demanding it, and we'll have to provide it.  Maybe not now, but 2 years
| down the line I think all UNIX systems will have a C2 or better
| security rating.  

  Since the average installation has neither a requirement (as in
government) nor a desire for C2, I wouldn't bet the future of my company
on it. The is a definite desire for greater security, but C2 is only one
set of solutions to the problems.

  The problems are real, but the market will not choose high overhead
solutions while alternatives are possible.
-- 
bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen)
    sysop *IX BBS and Public Access UNIX
    moderator of comp.binaries.ibm.pc and 80386 mailing list
"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me