On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 17:08:44 +1300 Christopher Sawtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> No, it's the responsibility of both the manufacturer and the distributer. > That's what happens with your car. If a tyre manufactuer discovers a fault in > their product, the all the cars are recalled and the tyres changed at the > manufacturers expense. Please explain why your computer be should any > different? also not an ms sympathiser, but making patches available on the net and publicising is as near as possible to a product recall you can do with software as widepread as windows. one wonders whether the plaintiff in the case had applied ms's patches. week after week we see new assaults on ms software that exploits security vulnerabilities identified and fixed months previously. truism: security is not a product, it is a process. of course ms's patching is not the easiest to work with, and it helps if you start with a decent system to begin with, but unpatched ms users shouldn't complain! -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
