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Responses to ADTI Paper
Everyone and their brother has something to say about the silly and incoherent ADTI paper released yesterday. It doesn't even seem worth the effort to me - it's so internally inconsistent that I can't imagine it convincing anyone of anything. Nevertheless, David Skoll of Roaring Penguin has a good rebuttal, and Newsforge ? pointed out that the MITRE study that's been kicking around for so long is now public, and took a look at the differences between the two. Update: 06/11 18:43 GMT by M : Another rebuttal, by John Viega and Bob Fleck of Secure Software.
So you mean to tell me that all the trouble we went through switching to Windows yesterday was for nothing?
I don't know what you all are talking about. I thought it was very convincing.
And I'm a senator. My constituency trusts me to make decisions for them. Why else would Disney^H^H^H^H^H^Hthe people of South Carolina elect me?
How much do you think ADTI would charge to conduct another unbiased study that completely counters and argues against their original report?
Bill Clinton: Pimp we can believe in. - The Shirt!!!
we should also remove all books from libraries because of the same threat they pose to national security.
ACK! Please don't give the government any ideas!
My guess is Slashdot paid for it. Seeing how many hits they are going to be able to get by 'exposing' it, they got a good deal. :)
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Yup, I think that's the point I've always wondered at. Why is MS so upset at the GPL? Nobody is forcing anybody to use it (to my knowledge,at least. Long-haired liberals may have kidnapped some CEOs and forced them to renounce Microsoft and all its pomps and works since I last checked, but I rather doubt it).
So I suppose it's only some kind of friendly warning to innocent users (as we all know that nobody ever reads licenses, uhh... wait a moment...). If it's so, well... thanks and all that. Nice from you to spend all those dollars in raising the public awareness of the problem. I think the point is already made, thanks, walk along, it's been a pleasure, we already know what we are doing, thanks, keep moving.
Rome taught me patience and assiduous application to detail. Virtues which temper the boldness of great, general views.
Interesting given that the US census population clock currently pegs US population at 289 Million.:-).
Seriously, having spoken extensively with the author of this study on the 'phone, he just doesn't follow a lot of the details at a level to coherently argue them with an informed audience.
Sure I can find bright folks on both sides of debates on oss/proprietary, full-disclosure/security-secrecy, win/unix/mac etc.
However ADTI's treatment may pass muster with folks who don't know the details and might have a similar set of economic / philosophic biases (e.g. capitalistic=successful=proprietary).
Anyhow 'Debates' are stoopid imo, debates with 'opponents' who lack enough clue to really participate are simply boring / frustrating.
Linux is Linux, if One need clarify their dist: <Dist>/GNU Linux
bsds are of course just BSD
If the Manhattan Project had used Proprietary Physics, we wouldn't be so worried about terrorists building bombs to drop on us. Problem is, all these photons and atoms and stuff are Public Domain; anybody with a calculator and a few pounds of Plutonium can make use of the technology.
I just received a registered email from the Elders outlining my punishment:
1. 10 strikes from a cane.
2. For one year, must play quake starting out with a 1 frag penalty.
3. Must program with emacs.
I feel the emacs requirement excessive.
-- Will program for bandwidth