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Red Hat CTO Testifies at MS trial
An anonymous reader writes "Red Hat CTO Michael Tiemann testified on behalf of the 9 states in MS's trial. From the article on SF Gate: "Red Hat Chief Technology Officer Michael Tiemann said Microsoft adds 'extensions' to critical communications methods that computers use to transmit security information, print, and perform other tasks. Those extensions are proprietary to Microsoft, he said, and despite recent actions Microsoft has not been forthcoming in releasing details of those changes.""
IMHO, It is implied that computers are performing their tasks with a certain level of quality / reliability, but without being able to view / test source code on the actual methods used for security, etc on Microsoft machines, there is no way to validate the quality or reliability of their software.
Sir_haxalot
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You're just too cool for your own good. The problem is, that they leave these highly extensive systems to l33t hax0rs like yourself. For real now... There are too many people like yourself who consider somebody "Stupid" for not understanding. Perhaps if you gave people a little more chance to learn, or maybe you should take the oppurtunity to teach them. Instead you'd just rather give the "I'm better than you" attitude. That's part of the reason that the many *nix systems aren't as mainstream.
Wow, I'm impressed you took up that much real estate in one post without a single factual statement. Bravo!
I don't think that there is a very slow rate of adoption in the corporate setting for Windows XP. Most corporate settings are just now getting around to upgrading to Win2k.
I held a job supporting Cigna Healthcare's last big upgrade, which was about a year after Win2k, and they were upgrading all client PC's to NT4. My current company still use NT4 on the PCs, Solaris 2.7(and we just upgraded to this late 2001) on most of the suns, and HP11i on the HP-UX machines.
So corporate customers generally wait a long time to upgrade, to allow stability issues to be fixed, and to allow the applications that they use to catch up to the operating system.
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I'll admit it. I started from a PC/Microsoft world:
After dinking around with TRS-80's and OS-9 from Microware, I had to choose a new platform. In hindsight, I should have gone with an Amiga or an Atari - but the rivalery between C64/Atari 8-Bit/TRS-80 would not die in my mind.
The PC had a good things going for it: A cheap OS from a funny-named corporation called "MicroSoft" and cheap compilers(with editors) from Borland.
I'd grown up in a worl where an OS cost $400 (at least) and a good compiler was $600. Oh, and that funny-named corporation was selling a passable word-processor for $150. Electric-Pencil still stung in the pocketbook for $400.
Unix was not a option: I had no access to a university, and Xenix was too expensive. Pluss, Unix had a 'difficult' reputation and came with a 'difficult' language cryptically called 'C'. I diden't know abot *BSD and Linux untill 1995.
Of course I know better. Now.
Moneyed corporations, non-working 'poor' and criminal prisoners are turning productive citizens into tax-slaves.