full-disclosure - Microsoft prepares security assault on Linux

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Message-ID: <20031113110632.GJ22342@dontpanic.ulm.ccc.de>
From: vb at dontpanic.ulm.ccc.de (vb@...tpanic.ulm.ccc.de)
Subject: Microsoft prepares security assault on Linux

On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 04:15:14PM -0800, Charles E. Hill wrote:
> > 2. A commercial company providing with liability (and responsibility)
> > for the software you use (in other words - someone to blame).
> What commercial software company actually offers guarantees and some form
> of liability?  I've *never* heard of anyone successfully suing MS or
> Oracle or anyone else for their software screwing up.  SAYING you can
> blame Microsoft is one thing -- doing it (other than pointing fingers) is
> another.

I now for four times acted as following:

I bought a single support call from Microsoft. We together detected that
my problem was caused by errors in Microsoft code. They corrected. I
paid nothing because Microsoft's support is free if the error was caused
by errors of Microsoft. The support was friendly, helpful and quick.

That is one reason because I have nothing against Microsoft. Of course,
no one paid me the work I did. And there are big problems with Windoze 2k
and WiXP, sometimes so big problems that I will not use such systems except
if I'm forced to.

Windows NT is getting worse. Unfortunately.
For security reasons Windows is disastrous.

VB.
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