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Re: [News] Symantec on Microsoft's Need for Lack of Security

  • Subject: Re: [News] Symantec on Microsoft's Need for Lack of Security
  • From: Peter KÃhlmann <peter.koehlmann@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2007 21:37:46 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: SMP
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Erik Funkenbusch wrote:

> On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 20:24:42 +0000, B Gruff wrote:
> 
>> On Wednesday 07 February 2007 20:14 Erik Funkenbusch wrote:
>> 
>>> On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 20:07:16 +0000, B Gruff wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On Wednesday 07 February 2007 19:35 Erik Funkenbusch wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 19:13:53 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Symantec: Microsoft conflict of interest is damaging internet
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>>>>| Symantec's chief executive has lambasted Microsoft for a dangerous
>>>>>>| conflict of interest as both the provider of an operating system
>>>>>>| and seller of software designed to secure its users.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Much like Linux vendors have a conflict of interest in that they
>>>>> subsist entirely on support contracts, and have no financial incentive
>>>>> to make problem free software.
>>>> 
>>>> So tell us Erik - how much (what proportion) of the software that they
>>>> are vending do they make?
>>> 
>>> In most cases, All of it, or at least some portion of all or most of it.
>>> They have to package and configure each application in their repository
>>> to
>>> fit their directory and support structure.  For example, SUSE
>>> applications
>>> have to support SUSEconfig.  They apply patches in many cases as well.
>> 
>> Ah - right - so you think that software problems are in the "make" rather
>> than the write and test?
> 
> I'm simply saying that no open source vendor can afford to make software
> problem or bug free.  They'd go out of business.

And again Erik F shows his extreme dishonesty
-- 
If they were committed to Linux, they'd be developing exclusively for
Linux. - Funkenbusch 17 Oct 2006


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