On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 20:18, ed tharp wrote: > On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 00:06, Luis-Miguel Astudillo wrote: > Welcome Luis-Miguel. > I know you addressed Stephen, but let me take a stab. > there should be an almost natural visible difference between closed > source (ie.; M$)reporting of problems (as in; 'if you look for problems, > we can send you to jail, so don't de-compile our software, and if you do > never let anyone know') and open source software (ie;Linux)(as in > 'everyone look here, and see if you can find any problems) the 'open > source is going to openly announce every problem anyone can find, as > soon as _anyone_ can find it. > The 'closed source' is only going to revel vulnerabilities only after > the legal dept and management have approved releasing the information. > kinda of like looking at an orange and saying well this fruit can not be > as good as this apple, since it is soft and squishy, and has bumps on > the skin.
That's another thing that constantly bugs me about MS products - they always take a "reactive" stance for supporting the OS - never a "proactive" stance - when I started out doing IT crap back in the mid-80's, we were "reactive" because, well, we had to be. Nowadays, it has evolved to be "proactive" - but for some strange reason, Microsoft constantly plays their own game. They're constantly worried about SELLING the product moreso than FIXING the product - and are ball-sy enough to flaunt it in the face of the purchaser - or the company that just purchased a contract with them... For ONE YEAR they should sit back, stop trying to FORCE the market and fix the damn product once and for all. ONCE it's fixed, stable, tested, tried and true, THEN they should re-market themselves - they're wasting incredible amounts of money - NOT THEIR MONEY - but the money of the public - and they don't care about it - literally. How cocky for someone to sell you a product, then, instead of fixing the product you originally bought, force you to upgrade and have more problems? And have more fixes? Then turn around and tell you that you're going to have to purchase a license to use it again? C'mon...games getting a bit old...time to grow up and come offa the carpet bagging mentality... -- Thu Aug 14 20:30:00 EST 2003 20:30:00 up 11 days, 18 min, 1 user, load average: 1.98, 1.58, 1.43 ----------------------------------------------------------------- | __ __ |kuhn media australia | | /-oo /| |'-. |http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |================================| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' |stephen kuhn | | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ----------------------------------------------------------------- linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1+ & RH 9 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 ----------------------------------------------------------------- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * Texas law forbids anyone to have a pair of pliers in his possession.
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