Isn't this a great country? We defend to death the rights for anyone to speak their opinion. Even if the opinion is uninformed, shortsighted, or silly.
I can't recall ever speaking to someone who actually bought a new application from a vendor simply because their old version of the application from the vendor was insecure or buggy. In fact, that would tend to push them to look elsewhere. Microsoft in particular is huge for adding new features. So much so that they were told by their customers to slow that down because introduction of the new features had a good possibility to open up new security holes or other problems. One other point. If MS is so consistent in doing this (and I am not arguing they aren't) and others are so consistently not doing it (and I am not arguing they are); why is MS still so popular? joe -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Choe.Sung Cont. PACAF CSS/SCHP Sent: Saturday, September 27, 2003 11:18 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Micro$oft's business model is not selling software that is (relatively) bug-free. Rather, they like bringing products to market ASAP, regardless of the security risks that these "products" pose to the consumer. If they were ever to release software that was free of such "problems", would they still be able to sell new versions to the public? I would think not... V/r, Sung J. Choe PACAF CSS/SCHP, PACAF NOSC Information Assurance Analyst DSN: 315-449-4317, Comm: 808-449-4317 _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html