Stop Microsoft
All Things Microsoft => Microsoft as a Company => Topic started by: mobrien_12 on 23 October 2003, 03:15
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found this first on slashdot.
Ballmer spouts his usual crap about Windows and Linux. Here's a nice doozy about Linux security
from Zdnet (http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105_2-5094279.html)
quote:
"People aren't used to paying for software on Linux. This isn't about religion, it's about business. We need to figure out what they need to get done and what they will pay for," Ballmer said.
Ballmer also disputed the notion that open-source code is more secure than Windows. "The data doesn't jibe with that. In the first 150 days after the release of Windows 2000, there were 17 critical vulnerabilities. For Windows Server 2003 there were four. For Red Hat (Linux) 6, they were five to ten times higher," he said.
"The vulnerabilities are there. The fact that someone in China in the middle of the night patched it--there is nothing that says integrity will come out of that process. We have a process that will lead to sustainable level of quality. Not saying we are the cat's meow here--I'm saying it is absolutely not good reasoning to think you will get better quality out of Linux. "
Groklaw dissects the stuff
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20031022014413296 (http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20031022014413296)