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

[Mark Haidekker <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Wednesday 12 June 2002 12:50 pm, you wrote:
>
> I'm not arguing that MS is good or likable or anything, just that they
> aren't evil.  When they got to be huge, they did lots of R&D, and
> funded about as much pure CS as any other company.  And then, just like
> many an enormous company of days past, they went off and ignored some or
> most of the stuff coming out of the lab...
>

This is the point I'd argue most - they _are_ evil.

They dominate the market, so they think they can afford poor qualty.  They 
can't because there is always some competition watching. A non-evil company 
would be forced to improve on quality.

Not so Microsoft. They pour out their lawyers (talking about evil...) and 
either destroy or swallow the competition. The only competition they cannot 
easily smash is Open Source. So, following the path of deepest evil, they 
produce lies, like the M$-funded anti-open-source whitepaper that started 
this thread. FUD, of course.

And I am seriously afraid what happens to us when the hordes of lawyers start 
making use of software patent rights to shut down some Open Source operations.

Not evil?

Mark
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