Re: [MLUG] Study: Open source poses security risks (???)

[Jonathan King <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Mark Haidekker wrote:

> On Wednesday 12 June 2002 11:09 am, you wrote:
> > On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Mark Haidekker wrote:
> > > And how much did a certain Redmond-based company pay for this
> > > assessment?
> >
> > What can I say?  You *nailed* that one!!
> >
> > From SANS newsletter...
>
> Oh well... First of all, I'm not surprised. Then, (sigh) why do always
> the _worst_ assumptions about Microsoft come true?

Microsoft has gotten into a situation where nobody much likes them, so
somebody has to pay for people to say nice things about them.  Part of
this is because people have gripes about MS, but part of it is also
probably just due to the fact that, as you'd expect with a monopoly,
nobody really "chooses" Microsoft.  People get grumpy about not having
choices.

Moreover, MS has done some good in supporting interesting research in CS
over the past few years.  I know in particular that they hired the chief
scientist in charge of the most popular Haskell compiler to do more
practical research on functional programming.  And they stepped up just
when funding from (for example) the US government was drying up a bit.
But this is Microsoft, of course, so when they finally announced their
.NET stuff, it turns out that they had made it inordinately difficult to
support some of the languages and ideas whose progress they had been
funding...

jking



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