Re: Viva le Same! Linux
Hence you're expectations that MS respond the same as a group that monitors a
SINGLE product is ludacrious.
No, it's not ludicrous. If you can't take the time to engineer, build and support a piece of software correctly, then you shouldn't be selling it. And no, this isn't about Apache or Linux. Recently when a vulnerability was found in Apple's Software Update utility, it took them less than a day to have a new version ready for download. That's responsibility.
Just like any other job that has a high-level of responsibility associated with it, if you can't do it right, then you should be doing something else.
Like video game consoles...
Microsoft's Vice President in charge of product development has stated that MICROSOFT PRODUCTS ARE NOT ENGINEERED FOR SECURITY ( http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/09/05/020905hnmssecure.xml ).
Of course you can "secure" any box, even Windows NT (unplug keyboard, remove floppy drive, unplug mouse, etc.), but to say it is secured is a fallacy. You've only raised the stakes a little--made it harder for the bad guys to do what they want. The difference is, securing a open source software solution like OpenBSD doesn't take a fleet of "security" experts. It doesn't take a read of the NSA documents for securing it (like Windows 2k). OpenBSD comes with the bar already raised because the programmers working on OpenBSD take the time to do their job right.
Securing an OpenBSD box, I don't have to dance through all kinds of hoops, implement all kinds of kludges, remove all kinds of "functionality" to make my box "secure" (until the next bit of sloppy programming that doesn't have any bounds checking is discovered and I have to start building the house-of-cards all over again).
Finally, I think it's simplistic to think that people don't like Microsoft simply because Microsoft is big. GM is a hell of a lot bigger than Microsoft, and no one is beating down their doors. No one really cares about GM because GM delivers on its promises. You buy a GM car, you get what you pay for. People don't like Microsoft because they feel Microsoft has cheated them out of their money. Put another way, people don't like Microsoft because people don't like getting ripped off.
Big corporate types don't really care what it runs because they don't have to work with it.
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