__/ [ The Ghost In The Machine ] on Monday 22 January 2007 20:12 \__
> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, B Gruff
> <bbgruff@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote
> on Mon, 22 Jan 2007 19:40:14 +0000
> <51ki6oF1kgugbU4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> On Monday 22 January 2007 17:35 Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>
>>> Microsoft and the Open Source community agree more must be done to make
>>> reporting cyber-crime easier
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>> | The House of Lords Science and Technology Committee, currently
>>> | investigating personal Internet security, were told this week
>>> | that the public face real difficulties in reporting internet
>>> | based crime.
>>> `----
>>>
>>> http://www.egovmonitor.com/node/9122
>>>
>>>
>>> Some quotes from the full transcript:
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>> | [MS's] Mr Lambert: We have always worked with other companies,
>>> | [including
>>> | competitors, to try to make our systems as inter-operable as
>>> | possible...
>>> |
>>> | ...Laurie: As an example of the security of an open source product,
>>> | there is a web server many people will not have heard of called Apache.
>>> | Quite often when I am speaking at a high level conference I actually
>>> | ask the question of the room, "Who here has heard of Apache?" and
>>> | maybe ten per cent of the people in the room will know. I will then
>>> | ask, "Who has heard of Microsoft?" - big laugh, of course everyone
>>> | knows Microsoft, and then it surprises them to learn that Apache
>>> | SSL, which is the secure web server version of it, has 70 per cent
>>> | of the world market in secure servers. In its ten-year history
>>> | there have only been three security alerts and two of those
>>> | were because of external libraries that were being used, so
>>> | there has only ever in its ten year history been one issue
>>> | specific to Apache SSL itself.
>>> `----
>>>
>>> http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld/lduncorr/s&tii170107.pdf
>>
>> Yep - great innit?
>>
>> "OSS is not secure"?
>>
>> "OSS is little used"?
>>
>> "OSS is inferior to 'professional' S/W"?
>>
>> "S/W is only worth what you pay for it"?
>>
>> Heh - run trolls, run...... clip-clop clip-clop.......:-)
>>
>
> And here I thought that odd noise was hundreds of
> TrollArguments(tm) falling over and dying. :-)
All these comments will bite Microsoft in the arse when it attempt to ride
the "Open Source" wave with its new "Open Source Enterprise License" from
Microsoft (or whatever they called it in the recent Aras propaganda).
Unama,erican, undependable (Microsoft said this to the BBC last year),
cancer, belongs in a museum, communism...
The hypocrisy in this debate will be fun to pick on in years to come...
Keep copies of all these statements. As CNN shows up, Microsoft has a history
of cleaning up everything which doesn't favour its presence. This includes
Microsoft's own site... PJ sometimes need to link to the Web Archive (Time
Machine) to find unflattering text from Microsoft.com.
Novell has been doing some 'housecleaning' since the deal as well. Here's one
example that we spotted.
http://boycottnovell.com/2006/11/20/novell-change-image/
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