Microsoft spent $200M over six month securing Windows 2003 last year before release. Look how much good it did. Total rewrite would have been a better use of money and time.
My $0.02 Edward W. Ray -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Georgi Guninski Sent: Saturday, November 01, 2003 1:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] Microsoft plans tighter security measures in Windows XP SP2 On Sat, 01 Nov 2003 13:27:36 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 1) Actually fix the software. Total rewrite, $200M. > 2) Bribe all the major reporters of bugs. $20M. > Bribing is not a panacea. If you look in history you will see that empires go up and then disappear, people go on the scene and then disappear. The number of m$ bugs increases, though. As a .bg poem says: "I fell, another one comes in my place, what the fsck does one person matter" - full poem at - http://slovoto.org/f/en/vaptsarov/last.htm, don't take worms in the computer sense ;) georgi _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
