On 10/28/07, Shawn K. Quinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 20:27 -0500, L. V. Lammert wrote: > > The fact that Microshaft crap has hundreds or thousands of > > vulnerabilities > > is the other extreme of the list. > > I have gone as far as to say Windows is "insecure by default" which is > still much more true than it should be. Of course I'm still holding out > some hope (not a lot) that Microsoft really, truly gives a damn someday.
Why would you do that? Go read The Software Conspiracy. The author, Minasi, got, on the record, interviews from VPs of development at Microsoft, Netscape, Sun, Oracle, etc basically saying that they don't give a shit about lousy software, because the customers continue to buy them. -- "This officer's men seem to follow him merely out of idle curiosity." -- Sandhurst officer cadet evaluation. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGvHNNOLnCk
