[LINK] Gates Misses the Mark, and the Point, on Security

[Howard Lowndes]

On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 09:38, Carl Makin wrote:
> Howard Lowndes wrote:
> 
> >
> >...and about what you can get away with.  Until corps are forced, most
> >probably by draconian legislation, to accept their liability for
> >security, then not much will change.
> >  
> >
> Two edged sword though.  While nowhere near as bad there are still the 
> odd security problem with open source and free OSs as well.  Should the 
> OS "vendor" bear the cost of a security problem?
> 
> I would think that heavy legislation to assign liability would in fact 
> be better for Microsoft as it would almost completely eliminate 
> competition...

but it would also bankrupt M$

> 
> 
> Carl.
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