On Thu, 10 Oct 2002 17:08:06 +0000 Miark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > shane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> saith: > > > ...the last asset, money, is startiong to get tied up between courts, > > payed off poloticians, dropping economy, and great ventures like the xbox... > > Excellent commentary on M$, Shane. About the _only_ thing you left out > was this beautiful dash of salt: the latest cancer OS by Mandrake has > spread to said xbox ;-)
Well ... I work on a military project which is specifying a combination of off-the-shelf and bespoke software. I was handed a paper today which studied in great detail (50 pages) the security of Microsoft Office. It was damning and stated it _could never_ be secured and that an alternative was _mandatory_ if anything other than unclassified information were to be on the same PC. The suggested alternative was OOo and the clincher was the availability of the source code; if insecure it could be secured. (This adds an interesting wrinkle to the GPL; if these security fixes increase the security classification of the software the updated source code cannot be redistributed!) So the fortress has already fallen but nobody can hear it fall ;) Alastair
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