Arash Partow
On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 11:15:34AM -0800, Shankar Unni wrote: Jim Ramsay wrote:Ha! Ask that boss to prove to you that there is no security problem running Windows on a 'secure' network.
To a person with that mentality, Bill Gates is implicitly trustworthy (i.e. if he says it's true, it must be true by definition, because it's a "big company that stands by its products"), while anything Open Source is written by h4x0rs and thus must "prove its trustworthiness".
How, you ask them? They don't know, but you'd better "know". No point arguing with them..
Proving the trustworthiness of any important system is never a waste of time.
cgf
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