Flame. -4 Karma. I can't resist the reply to that bit of nonsense. No, if Microsoft made a secure OS it would be the end of the world, because you know H.E.-double-toothpick will be frozen over.
(if the truth hurts, stop here) Microsoft is under Anti-trust scrutiny because they made shady deals, goes like this: 1. License us your software NOW 2. Now that you licensed us your software, we aren't going to license it from you anymore but are going to compete with you directly since we previously licensed your code. (see RealAudio) 3. You, stop making your product for Windows, and let us do that, you can keep your program for other platforms. (see QuickTime and Netscape) 4. Ignore this offer of 1 million to your head software engineer's to come work for Microsoft. 5. Also ignore this extra 500,000 if they leave you today. (see Nathan Mhyrvold) 6. Oh, you want to match that offer? then ignore this 3 million dollar counter-offer, all your engineer's belong to us. (no base jokes) 7. You continue to compete with us? Then we buy you, here is 1.5 billion (or 2?), we own you. (oops, FTC won't allow that. see Intuit) You get the idea. Nothing with adding Security has to do with Anti-trust. Then again, the deal they got from the DOJ beats everything they had before. Government should stay out of the free market, but that's another flame altogether. Nathan > -----Original Message----- > From: Harald van Bebber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 11:47 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: AW: Badtrans and SirCam > > > If everything to make it usable and secure was included, > Microsoft would > face another anti trust case ... > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: John Matteson [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Gesendet am: Montag, 3. Dezember 2001 18:27 > An: Exchange Discussions > Betreff: RE: Badtrans and SirCam > > Boy can I identify with that. > > And to some extent, it is understandable. When a user goes > out and buys a > car, other than for tags, they really don't have to go > anywhere else or > purchase anything else to make it usable or safe. Everything > needed to make > it usable is included when you take delivery. > > It's rather hard to explain just WHY they need a personal > firewall, virus > protection and a set of system utilities if it's "just for > home/kid/fun" > use. > > John Matteson; Exchange Manager > Geac Corporate Infrastructure Systems and Standards > (404) 239 - 2981 > Believe nothing because it is written in books. Believe > nothing because wise > men say it is so. Believe nothing because it is religious > doctrine. Believe > it only because you yourself know it to be true. -- Buddha > > > -- > Harald van Bebber > > HvB-EDV It-Service > > GMX - Die Kommunikationsplattform im Internet. > http://www.gmx.net > > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
