Re: [News] Microsoft to Kill Its Former Partners

["Oliver Wong" <owong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Geico Caveman" <spam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
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> Oliver Wong wrote:
>
> > "Geico Caveman" <spam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> > news:44c4e20f$0$576$b45e6eb0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > 1. More security flaws in Windows Vista.
> > > 2. Death of Microsoft's rivals in the Windows security business as they
> > > would not know as much about the flaws as Microsoft would.
> >
> >     Actually, 1 and 2 are sort of contradictory too. There's two
> > possibilities:
> >
> >     (A) Microsoft is competent at fixing their own security flaws.
> >     (B) Microsoft is not competent at fixing their own security flaws.
> >
> >     If (A) is true, that implies (1) is NOT true.
> >     If (B) is true, that implies (2) is NOT true.
>
> You are neglecting the conflict of interest. It is possible that A is 
> true,
> but then Microsoft might not want to (now that they have something to gain
> from existence of flaws).

   You're right, let me rephrase it then:

   (A') Microsoft fixes their own security flaws cheaply, and in a timely 
manner.
   (B') Microsoft does not fix their own security flaws cheaply, and in a 
timely manner.

   If (A') is true, that implies (1) is NOT true.
   If (B') is true, that implies (2) is NOT true.

   - Oliver