On 2006-06-26, Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> posted something concerning:
> Open source gets results, while Microsoft blames malware on 'stupid users'
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>| Two very different news articles crossed my desk today. First, there was
>| a report that open source developers on 32 projects fixed 900 bugs in
>| two weeks that were reported by an automated scan program from Coverity,
>| sponsored by a grant from U.S. Homeland Security. Second, a presentation
>| was given by a Microsoft security official who said that rootkits,
>| phishing, trojans, spyware, and other forms of malware had gotten so bad
>| on Windows that IT departments needed to come up with a fast way to "nuke
>| the systems from orbit", i.e., wipe out the hard drive and start over.
>| He goes on to say that phishing is a problem because "there really is
>| no patch for human stupidity".
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> http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette/?p=65
That really shows the superiority of the proprietary model more than
almost anything else. If the OSS developers had employed the proven M$
method of fixing bugs, they could have fixed 12 instead of 900
(probably only on one particular day of the month, too) and could have
spent the rest of their time doing more constructive things. Like
running around giving speeches bashing users for having trouble with
the bugs that weren't fixed.
--
Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the
things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.
-- Andy Rooney
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