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Microsoft: Trust and Antitrust

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the ironic-t-shirt-slogan dept.

Microsoft is in the news for two reasons today: the continuing saga of the antitrust cases, and Microsoft's public relations push for "trustworthy computing". A selection of links: Microsoft claims two months of code reviews and half-day seminars surpasses everything ever done by the open source community; Salon talks about the problems with a monoculture; SBC, an abusive telecom monopoly, complains about Microsoft's behavior, an abusive OS monopoly; and Microsoft responds, claiming that SBC is merely being self-serving.

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  1. Microsoft... by PhotoGuy · · Score: 5, Funny
    Man, does this quote send shivers down anyone else's spine???:

    "Geeks like learning new things, and when they pop out at the end of the process they're entirely brainwashed," he said.
    If my employer ever publicly said anything like that, I'd run for the exits.

    Wonder if the chants are part of the brainwashing process.

    Developers, developers, developers, developers.
    Developers, developers, developers, developers.
    Developers, developers, developers, developers.
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  2. Lipner is astonished! by Dharzhak · · Score: 5, Funny

    Steven B. Lipner, Microsoft's director of security assurance, responded, saying: "I'd be astonished if the open-source community has in total done as many man-years of computer security code reviews as we have done in the last two months.

    Lipner also reacted with astonishment when he was told that professional wrestling matches are fixed.

  3. Wait a second by quantaman · · Score: 4, Funny

    several of its key program managers warned that underestimating Microsoft's ability to meet the computer security challenge might be as foolhardy as was misjudging its ability to turn itself into a dominant Internet player.

    I thought they were the default security player. Don't the vast majority of hackers break into MS boxes already?

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