[PLUG] Creative writing

Michael C. Robinson michael at goose.robinson-west.com
Wed Aug 13 16:50:03 UTC 2003


On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 16:11, Paul Heinlein wrote:
> After spending the better part of the last couple days preemptively
> dealing with the Windows RPC buffer overflow and its attendant
> in-the-wild exploits, I want to write a new Microsoft ad, with
> apologies to MasterCard:
> 
>   Federal income taxes paid by Microsoft Corp. in 1999: $0
> 
>   A dozen Microsoft Windows Server licenses: $10,000
> 
>   Bill Gates' net worth: $30,000,000,000
> 
>   Worldwide labor cost to deal with latest Windows exploit: priceless
> 
> --Paul Heinlein <heinlein at madboa.com>
> 
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The "standards" that Microsoft controls 
should be open sourced!  Recommended move
is to require any Windows that hasn't been 
supported for two years to be open sourced.  
At least Europe is showing some backbone.

What gets me is that people know it's hard 
to do a Windows server especially with 
multiple languages, a fairly common need these
days, yet convincing the OS challenged manager 
to study and solve the problem with his/her own 
people and open source is surprisingly difficult.  
It's inconvenient after all and there's no one 
to blame even though that is clearly absurd when 
your talking about Microsoft.

It's reasonable that companies don't want to
add a division for their software needs 
desiring to come as close to using out of 
the crate systems as possible, but they've 
get to do better than Windows.

If Microsoft relied on a higher level API
for networking and redesigned Windows so
that anyone could write the networking layer,
implementing it in any protocol I might add,
it would help a great deal.

Microsoft wants to sell software that
has to be registered for it to work.  This 
doesn't mean you have to write the 
operating system.  Considering the Windows
track record, Microsoft should get out of the
OS business.

Some problems if Microsoft had to solve them...  
The point has already been made, forget it :-)

     --  Michael C. Robinson
 





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