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Microsoft: Trust and Antitrust

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. Re:Bad Idea for Microsoft by BurritoWarrior · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Microsoft really does brainwash their employees. I went to your site about the "myth" of open source software being more secure, and I see where you point to the Security Focus table to try and prove your point. For the *thousandth* time, that table takes into account every single application that ships with a distribution. Can we lump in all the vulnerabilities for MS Office/Outlook, MS Works, SQL Server, and Exchange into the NT/2000 group?

    And even with those misleading statistics, the only distro above NT/2000 (42) is Red Hat (54).

    Your lack of objectivity renders your entire article irrelevant.