It would be easy just to unload your MS stock. Apple, for example, rose about 50% in the last several months. MS has been a laggard, and promises to remain so. It is just too big to keep on growing.
Joel On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 08:16:17AM -0400, dep wrote: > quoth Matthew Carpenter: > | They haven't drawn the conclusion that the initial outage was caused > | by it, but there are reports (computerworld I believe) that MSBlast > | was responsible for clogging the network pipe between power stations > | used to avoid the cascading effect. The cascade-avoidance system > | simply couldn't do it's job... > | > | I agree that it probably STARTED there as well... > > and ultimately it's gonna come down something like this: a crack of a > major hospital or nuke plant is going to kill many or seriously > endanger millions. it will be due to microsoft software. there will be > an outraged response. what will the effect be? > > controls in the internet, probably. what it *won't* be is serious action > against microsoft, even though their stuff is not only demonstrably > dangerous but widely known to be dangerous. (the obvious corrective > action, of course, would be to ban permanent connection to the internet > of any machine running microsoftware.) there is no one to whom this is > a mystery. yet such action as has been taken against microsoft on any > point has been very weak. why? because the effects of a microsoft > collapse would certainly be vast and severe -- far worse than the > combined costs of all the attacks so far. microsoft is a very widely > held security. those of us who have company stock-based retirement > plans, 401ks, or any of a variety of mutual funds own microsoft stock. > it really is a big player economically. > > so dealing with the microsoft problem *must* include some way of dealing > with the substantial financial problem that handling the software > problem would entail. it's easy to say "screw 'em," but that aintagonna > happen. it's a real mess. > -- > dep > > Writing takes no time. It's finding something to say that takes forever. > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
