[Asrg] Software bashing

[Gordon Peterson]

 > I see no reason why we should change (...snip...) in order to 
accomodate the thriving malware ecosystem made possible in large measure 
by the abysmally low quality of Microsoft products.

It doesn't advance the discussion in any useful direction to condemn any 
given software vendor.

The DOD/NSA for years has had bids out for totally "secure" operating 
systems and everything produced has either not been particularly secure, 
or hasn't been usable.

If 90% of all the computer workstations were running Linux, then the 
virus/malware authors would be writing viruses for THAT platform.  Same 
is true for Macs.

The problems in software engineering that result in holes and 
exploitable bugs are NOT limited to any specific platform or hardware 
architecture.

Besides, the problems of malware are not all due to unreliable software 
anyhow... phishing exploits are a good counter-example.

For all their many sins (including of omission), Microsoft has probably 
done more than ANY other vendor to automate and accelerate the 
distribution of patches to correct security problems.

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Gordon Peterson II
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1977-2007:  Thirty year anniversary of local area networking