Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on June 09, 2006 02:52 AM
If this were slashdot, I might say 'mod parent up'. Mr. Barr, I am a Linux (and somewhat FreeBSD) user and intensely dislike Microsoft. However, there is a polarity - a factional fighting - between OSS and MS. Since you are talking about the (actually rather obvious but usually unstated) conflict of interest in for-profit 'security' firms that *require* insecurity to exist, MS is not even really relevant to this. If MS was a bunch of incompetent angels, who allowed this culture to take root due to their crappy products, but were doing everything in their power to fix it and never abusing their monopoly and certainly not coercing folks - well, I feel confident these 'security' firms would be engaging in virtually the exact same practices they are now, anyway. Try and retain some credibility with both the MS and OSS camps by not putting such florid rhetoric as
"It may be that if you do business with Microsoft on a regular basis, you get used to working in an ethics-free environment, and you begin to practice the same black business arts as the master."
in your insecurity articles, please, because this is an issue that *far* transcends choice of OS. (I don't deny MS makes it worse; I'm just saying it's not useful in this case to dwell on it.)
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Re:This isn't just an OSX and *Nix problem...
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on June 09, 2006 02:52 AM"It may be that if you do business with Microsoft on a regular basis, you get used to working in an ethics-free environment, and you begin to practice the same black business arts as the master."
in your insecurity articles, please, because this is an issue that *far* transcends choice of OS. (I don't deny MS makes it worse; I'm just saying it's not useful in this case to dwell on it.)
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