Oh, this guy is some piece of work: liar, thief, a whole whack of personality disorders goin' on here. Check this out:
"After a few introductory questions about how security issues had affected Microsoft's bottom line and Ballmer personally (his family and friends don't like browser hijacking and pop-up ads either), I got to the point: Does the company regret adding any of the product features that have since been exploited so relentlessly? In a word, no. "It's all a question of point in time," he explained -- Microsoft had customers and competitors to attend to, and security wasn't the biggest priority then. Take Web browsers, for example. "The browser wars were never about security, the browser wars were about features," Ballmer said, explaining why Microsoft added such items to Internet Explorer as ActiveX software to run Windows programs inside the browser. "I'm not saying that was right, with 20/20 hindsight; all I'm saying is the competitive marketplace took us all in a certain direction." " *'All'*?! No, just you Stevie, no one else on the planet thought it was a good idea to embed insecure applications right into the OS, only MS. And after all the harm that has been done, the billions of dollars in damage and lost productivity and waste of bandwidth, well, no apologies, no regrets, just a 'we're workin' on it'. Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1019-2004Apr10.html -- JoeHill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "One of the most dangerous errors of our time is the belief that human beings are uniquely violent animals, barely restrained from committing atrocities on each other by the constraints of ethics, religion, and the state." -- Eric S. Raymond
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