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From: jeff@tekcsc.MKT.TEK.COM (Jeff Beadles)
Newsgroups: alt.bbs,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: BBS Software
Message-ID: <110@tekcsc.MKT.TEK.COM>
Date: 16 Nov 88 15:34:29 GMT
References: <956@galaxy> <5802@hoptoad.uucp> <6569@spool.cs.wisc.edu> <2054@ddsw1.MCS.COM> <109@otishq.UUCP> <2069@ddsw1.MCS.COM> <12409@conexch.UUCP>
Reply-To: jeff@tekcsc.UUCP (Jeff Beadles)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Tektronix, Inc.  Wilsonville, Or.
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Well, I am finally lowering myself to a medium level flame.  Please use 'n'
if you don't want to read it...


In article <12409@conexch.UUCP> root@conexch.UUCP (Larry Dighera) writes:
>In article <2069@ddsw1.MCS.COM> karl@ddsw1.UUCP (Karl Denninger) writes:
>
>>Well, I guess you can either write it yourself, or pay someone else to (or
>>pay for someone else's solution that's already written).
>
>Or, you can get XBBS.  It's free.  It runs under Sys V.  
>With an obect-only BBS, you never know if the author has put a backdoor
                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>into the code or not.  Source code is the only way to go.

[Flame on]

	Ack, give me a break.  If checking for backdoor's is your persuading
factor, then try again.  How many other programs do you run without having
the source?  (Do you have a Unix source license?)

	True, the net did just have a {virus,worm,insert apropos phrase here}
problem.  There still should be some sort of implicit trust between the
user/owner, and the vendor.  When someone buys a program, then it's my
opinion that it's the integrity of the vendor to not to intstall trap
doors, or trojan horses.

	By the way, do you know of any object-only BBS programs that are in
the public domain?  I can't think of any.

[flame off]
-- 
Jeff Beadles  IDG Customer Support Center  Tektronix, Inc.
jeff@tekcsc.mkt.tek.com -or-               POB 1000
 ..!tektronix!tekcsc.mkt.tek.com!jeff      Wilsonville, OR. 97070 MS 63-171