On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 17:40:45 -0400 Michael Scottaline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered:
> I'll look forward to seeing your letter. Will you sign it JH or > haywire? ;-) Best, > Mike *If they print it...* Who knows where it will end up? Dear Editor, The abovementioned article is so rife with inaccuracy and untruth, it is difficult to believe it was not dictated directly from Redmond and printed verbatim. First of all, the reason Microsoft is the target of most hack attacks has nothing whatsoever to do with it's market share. The internet suffers unduly because of egregious security flaws in Microsoft's "operating system", *despite* the fact that most of the websites on the Internet and most of the Internet's structure is built on Unix, Linux, and other non-Microsoft platforms. The internet continues to function in a useable manner day-to-day only because the non-Microsoft software that it runs on is able to cope with the load that Microsoft vulnerabilities generate. This bit of propagandistic fluff is clearly an editorial response to the report issued recently by the Computer and Communications Industry Association, which quite rightly heaps almost all of the blame for the woes of the average user's Internet experience squarely where it belongs: Microsoft. The fact that said report is not mentioned *once* is in itself a glaring oversight on the part of the journalist. Microsoft's corporate culture is characterized by inattention to security, and has been for decades, not the hardware manufacturers, not vendors of Unix products, not the Open Source community, only Microsoft. This is why, increasingly, Governments across the globe are turning to alternatives to Microsoft, not only for the reduced costs and less restrictive licensing terms, but out of concern for their security. The U.S. govenment itself is turning to Linux to power it's most secure operations, such as the N.S.A. I would hope that Mr. Lohr, supposedly the author of this article, do more and better research to get his facts straight in the future. -- Regards, T Bruce Milne -- HaywireMac Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Mandrake HowTo's & More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Fill what's empty, empty what's full, scratch where it itches. -- Alice Roosevelt Longworth
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