TF>> the design and quality of the product. If there was an ethic TF>> committee for these kind of violations they would be disbarred,
If there were ethic commitee on this kind of things, all major software vendors would have been taken out and shot by now. :) TF>> to see blood. Microsoft has earned enough of consumer money to TF>> make a good product, and if they need to pull it off the shelves TF>> to fix it, than so be it. Mind you, the browser is not the only Well, but US Govt is after MS not for making a bad OS. That would be one interesting trial, but the current trial AFAIK is about something different. And no, Microsoft is not goig to pull Windows - that would be stupid. Neither they will fix all problems in it until consumers (mind that - consumers, not Big Boss!) won't stop buying buggy/insecure products. You cannot force people into right consumer behaviour. No more than you can force people to be happy or smart. TF>> Now it is undeniably that Microsoft knew from the beginning that TF>> they are putting a product which is insecure on the shelves. I Guess what - most commercial companies put out knowingly buggy products. There's no other way to comply with market demand. People are ready to cope with bugs. If people won't buy it, companies will make ten extra QA rounds and extra developers time before releasing. But now it would be just waste of time. TF>> to insure themselves. All in all, I think Microsoft acted TF>> irresponsibly. Definitely. However, do their industry peers act responcibly? Didn't Sun release OS where all rpc.* are as full of holes as swiss cheese? Didn't SGI release OS where every passer-by can get root with less keyclicks that takes to order "Hacking for Dummies" on Amazon? Etc., etc. They are bad, I agree. The others are bad no less, that's the real problem. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] \/ There shall be counsels taken Stanislav Malyshev /\ Stronger than Morgul-spells phone +972-50-624945 /\ JRRT LotR. whois:!SM8333 ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
