[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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