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Message-ID: <20040513225534.GA28128@tempest.stormcenter.net>
From: live4java at stormcenter.net (Mister Coffee)
Subject: Support the Sasser-author fund started

On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 12:38:05AM +0300, Georgi Guninski wrote:
> On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 04:43:23PM +0200, Tobias Weisserth wrote:
> > As much as MS products suck, MS has done
> > nothing illegal.
> >
> 
> this is completely false, haven't you read news in the past years?
> 
Overall, you're right.  Microsoft has been found guilty, in court, of breaking quite a few laws.  But here, in this specific case (as was implied), they didn't do anything wrong.  They released the advisory.  They released the patch.

It doesn't excuse their business practices, or the original code flaws, but writing bad code isn't illegal.  Lame perhaps.  But not illegal.

Cheers,
L4J