How much longer..
Stephen J. Wilcox
steve at telecomplete.co.uk
Wed Aug 13 18:48:08 UTC 2003
On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Len Rose wrote:
>
> Hi.. just think if the billions of dollars being spent on M$
> products could have been funneled into open source projects.
>
> To reinforce the point in the most blunt manner possible:
>
> No one had ever better dare postulate that the inherent reason
> for all of the vulnerabilities in Micro$oft products are due
> to any special features of note.
>
> There is no particular network-enabled feature that Windows has
> that UNIX didn't implement years before and has done so securely
> following established internet design standards adopted by the
> ruling standards body (IETF) after intense study and open participation
> from all parties who were interested.
>
> Now knee-jerk reactions by various network operators is to
> filter, filter, filter and soon, by the grace of a piece of
> crap operating system you'll have a much more limited internet
> to work with because for Micro$oft's sake they've filtered everything.
Hey I like MS bashing as much as anyone else but the fact is you could say this
of any vendor.. a good recent example being Cisco
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