On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Len Rose wrote:
Hi.. just think if the billions of dollars being spent on M$ products could have been funneled into open source projects.
To reinforce the point in the most blunt manner possible:
No one had ever better dare postulate that the inherent reason for all of the vulnerabilities in Micro$oft products are due to any special features of note.
There is no particular network-enabled feature that Windows has that UNIX didn't implement years before and has done so securely following established internet design standards adopted by the ruling standards body (IETF) after intense study and open participation from all parties who were interested.
Now knee-jerk reactions by various network operators is to filter, filter, filter and soon, by the grace of a piece of crap operating system you'll have a much more limited internet to work with because for Micro$oft's sake they've filtered everything.
Hey I like MS bashing as much as anyone else but the fact is you could say this of any vendor.. a good recent example being Cisco