[CLUE-Talk] Microsoft incompetence of negligence?

[Evan Widger]

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From: "Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier" <jzb at dissociatedpress.net>
To: <clue-talk at clue.denver.co.us>
Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2003 9:41 PM
Subject: Re: [CLUE-Talk] Microsoft incompetence of negligence?


>
> > And maybe the govt should also mandate that any software it buys adheres
> > to certain accepted open standards.  I'm not saying it needs to create
> > the standards.  But I think that even MS would be forced to adhere to
> > open standards or lose a lot of business.  And companies that deal with
> > the govt would also want those standards.  It could be a chain reaction.
> > Most of Micrsoft's profits in software come from its operating systems
> > and Office.  Document and communication protocol standards weaken that
> > monopoly.
>
> After this week's fiasco, IT managers who buy Microsoft should be
> summarily fired. Period.
>
> Zonker
> -- 

methinks tarred and feathered might be better. public example is a very
powerful deterrent to criminally neglegent behavior.

any sysadmin unfortunate enough to have to work on windows against his or
her own best judgement should understand that it is infact insecure by
default and should set something like bugtrack or slashdot as their
homepage, such that they check the updates/exploits daily if not hourly. i
believe the term is due diligence. that's the one that says that you have to
do everything in your power to prevent bad things from happening, right?
methinks a class action suit against MS and sysadmins that didn't patch
might be in the works, but it'd be hard to prove anything.


- Evan Widger
   PsychoI3oy at linkline.com



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