root wrote on 1998-01-23 01:29 UTC:
[Press Releases] http://www.netscape.com/newsref/pr/newsrelease558.html?cp=nws01flh1
NETSCAPE ANNOUNCES PLANS TO MAKE NEXT-GENERATION COMMUNICATOR SOURCE CODE AVAILABLE FREE ON THE NET
Excellent! Finally mainstream software companies start to understand that security critical software has to be provided to the customer in full compilable source code to allow independent security evaluation. No formal CC/ITSEC evaluation process can beat the scrutiny of the Internet crowd. I wonder how long we have to wait for the day on which we can download the latest GPL'ed Windows NT version source code from Microsoft's web server ... Markus -- Markus G. Kuhn, Security Group, Computer Lab, Cambridge University, UK email: mkuhn at acm.org, home page: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/>