On Tuesday September 30 2003 05:37 pm, HaywireMac wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 17:40:45 -0400
>
> Michael Scottaline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered:
> > I'll look forward to seeing your letter. Will you sign it JH
> > or haywire? ;-) Best,
> > Mike
>
> *If they print it...* Who knows where it will end up?
>
> Dear Editor,
>
> The abovementioned article is so rife with inaccuracy and
> untruth, it is difficult to believe it was not dictated directly
> from Redmond and printed verbatim.
>
> First of all, the reason Microsoft is the target of most hack
> attacks has nothing whatsoever to do with it's market share. The
> internet suffers unduly because of egregious security flaws in
> Microsoft's "operating system", *despite* the fact that most of
> the websites on the Internet and most of the Internet's structure
> is built on Unix, Linux, and other non-Microsoft platforms. The
> internet continues to function in a useable manner day-to-day
> only because the non-Microsoft software that it runs on is able
> to cope with the load that Microsoft vulnerabilities generate.
>
> This bit of propagandistic fluff is clearly an editorial response
> to the report issued recently by the Computer and Communications
> Industry Association, which quite rightly heaps almost all of the
> blame for the woes of the average user's Internet experience
> squarely where it belongs: Microsoft. The fact that said report
> is not mentioned *once* is in itself a glaring oversight on the
> part of the journalist.
>
> Microsoft's corporate culture is characterized by inattention to
> security, and has been for decades, not the hardware
> manufacturers, not vendors of Unix products, not the Open Source
> community, only Microsoft.
>
> This is why, increasingly, Governments across the globe are
> turning to alternatives to Microsoft, not only for the reduced
> costs and less restrictive licensing terms, but out of concern
> for their security. The U.S. govenment itself is turning to Linux
> to power it's most secure operations, such as the N.S.A.
>
> I would hope that Mr. Lohr, supposedly the author of this
> article, do more and better research to get his facts straight in
> the future.
>
> --
> Regards,
> T Bruce Milne
All right, where is the real JoeHill? ;)
BTW, M$ servers are currently 23.5% of all web servers and their
share has been in decline over the last year.
http://news.netcraft.com/archives/web_server_survey.html
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