Hello Brandon, Saturday, August 16, 2003, 12:26:47 AM, you wrote:
BV> Anyone dumb enough to leave a PC wide open with no protection, and BV> got hit by this worm deserves it - Just as much as someone who BV> runs linux with no security deserves to have their box owned. BV> Bill Gates didn't make people idiots, God did. Hate the user, not the BV> developer. On the other hand, M$ could have spent the money to test it more. Instead, they pocket the $$, knowing their final testing will be done by the public. By charging for 'support', they can make even more money this way. Not a nice way to do business, and only possible if you are a ruthless monopoly, as M$ is. They really don't care about inconveniencing the public. It is appropriate to dislike such developers. Perhaps the only reason they spent so much effort advertising this particular worm was because it was targeting them. If it was only the public that would be hurt, it is likely they wouldn't care hardly at all since it does not affect their bottom line. Windoze tries to protect users from themselves(sometimes in obnoxious ways), to mitigate against idiots. But, the basic design which lets anything do anything to everything is a security disaster. If they REALLY wanted to help users, one of the bests things they could do is to make sure there are minimum security and privacy risks, but they don't. Instead, each version of Windoze gets worse from both the privacy and security points of view. With XP, the EULA is just horrendous! Some changes are trivial, such as default security settings so 'idiots' don't get infected their first hour on the net. It is NOT all the fault of 'idiots.' The default is wide open and not protected. It is appropriate to dislike such developers. Windoze is becoming ever more difficult for other software developers to work with, thus strangling innovation and competition even more. Many parts of Windoze are not that good (the firewall for example), and superior third party products are being shut out if they can't be taken over by M$. It is appropriate to dislike such developers. -- rikona mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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