On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 07:57:02PM +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
> "It's far too easy to make fun of Microsoft products, but it takes a 
> real man to make them work, and a god to make them do anything useful"
>   -- Anonymous

Then I must work with a bunch of gods, who have been running a
production government/e-commerce site here since 1997, that hasn't even
come close to being cracked. You know how many machines we have public?
About 15 or 16 with IIS, 4 with BSD/Linux. You know how many security
scares we've had? Zero. Know how many hotfixes we've had to rush into
production without weeks of testing? About 4 or 5.

Not too bad, considering I could say about the same for Linux. Just do
sane stuff like, oh, disable remote printer management support on
production servers and you won't be fucked.

I'm honestly sick of the dumb, rampant MS-bashing that goes on all the
time, unchecked. Sure, I believe Linux is a better OS (just look at my
sig, and the fact that I used to do packages for Debian), but that
doesn't mean we should go around spurting bullshit about Microsoft.

When they do it, it's called FUD.

When we do it, people laugh, and put it in their signature.

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