[LINK] Open source just as insecure as Windows

[Howard Lowndes]

On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Jan Whitaker wrote:

> I have a question: where does such excellent rebuttal get a hearing?  I
> don't really think the Oz would put this in Letters to the Editor.  But
> it's so important that the alternative to the 'vested interest' of the
> commercial enterprises get out into the minds of the people the commercials
> are trying to influence by doing their spin in the first place.
>
> Do general CIOs and their senior managers [sometimes NOT tech literate and
> 'reliant' on such bs from vendors] have an association where these counter
> positions can be put?

I think this is symptomaic of the frustration that OSS advocates suffer.
Organisations such as Microsoft have major PR/spin factories because they
are _one_ organisation.  If any
conference/organisation/government/interest group wants an "expert"
opinion then M$ can front just such an "expert".

With OSS having no structured spin factories, they miss out.

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