On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 14:07, Bill Campbell wrote: > The people who deploy Windows systems on the Internet should be held > accountable for endangering their organization's data and systems (not to > mention lost productivity while waiting for Windows systems to reboot > unnecessarily). It's not like these worms are any surprise. I know I've > been warning people of the dangers of using Windows on public networks for > at least ten years now.
What you say is true - and if it can be proven that Microsoft has callously endangered their customers' systems - and those customers were not aware of MS's general security limitations beforehand (there is the rub), then they should be sued. But why does that give virus-spawners free rein? Why are we also making excuses for those who knowingly and intentionally cause damage to systems? To offer another analogy: I may be stupid for going to a bad part of town late at night, but that also doesn't change the fact that a person that sticks a knife in that me is still guilty of assault or murder. One person's negligence is not an open excuse for others to damage that person's systems and/or property. -- burns _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
