Linux guru argues against security liability    Thursday, January 18 2007 @ 02:50 PM EST Contributed by: sde Alan Cox, one of the leading Linux kernel developers, has told a House of Lords hearing that neither open- nor closed-source developers should be liable for the security of the code they write. Cox, who is permanently employed at Red Hat, told the Lords Science and Technology Committee inquiry into personal internet security that both open- and closed-source software developers, including Microsoft, have an ethical duty to make their code as secure as possible. "Microsoft people have a moral duty in making sure their operating system is fit-for-purpose," Cox said on Wednesday. He added that it was generally accepted that no-one knows how to build a perfectly secure operating system, but that this was a research problem that someone would solve eventually, and make a lot of money in the process. Full article   [ Views: 1537 ]

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