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CCIA Urges Dept. of Homeland Security to Avoid Microsoft
An anonymous reader writes "The Inquirer has posted an article reporting that the Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA) has urged the US Department of Homeland Security, in an open letter to Tom Ridge, secretary of the department, to avoid using Microsoft software because Microsoft's software is 'riddled with obvious and easily exploited vulnerabilities.'"
to use OpenBSD without a windowing environment, or any ethernet interfaces.... "most secure setup in the world" the report claimed. When the department asked about useability and productivity of these other avenues they were told "STFU n00blah and RTFM".....
What happens if SCO goes after the Department of Homeland security for using something like linux? Would it be considering terrorism?
I've left to find myself. If you happen to see me, please, keep me there until I return.
Amazing! A company whose tag line is "open markets, open systems, open networks, and full, fair, and open competition" urges the adoption of open source software? And The Inquirer posted this MS bashing news story?
Next thing you know, it will be linked off of slashdot. This is highly irregular behavior, and very newsworthy.
Slow news day?
I'm going to mention this in my class, in front of everyone. I'm also going to tell them how flaky XP and MS products are in general!
This is a lesson to us future PHBs!!!!!There is no spoon or sig.
Microsoft supports terrorism!
That must be why Apache has so many more security problems than IIS, since it is twice as widely used.
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The Department of Homeland Security can use any *nix they like (if SCO allows) safe in the knowledge that according to 100% of Microsoft competitors, anti-Microsoft zealots, Mac Zealots, survivalists, conspiracy theorists and many teenage elitist OSS users:
1) There has never, at any time, anywhere on the face of the planet been any security problems in any software produced by any company, other than Microsoft.
2) The only reason for the multitude of releases of all other software, is to add features and fix bugs (Nothing security related), even though it is well known that all software not produced by Microsoft is perfect at its very conception.
$2B OR NOT $2B = $FF
The best way to convince Tom Ridge and the DHS to do anything, is to scream your lungs out at them /not/ to do something.
But didn't the 90% figure just sound better?
It's not considered polite to insult open source operating systems and their user interfaces in mixed company.
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2002
Microsoft Yearly Earings $6.16 billion.
Microsoft Cash Reserves $46 billion
Microsoft Market Share 92% of the Desktop
Watching Ed Black poke Microsoft with the sword of it's own making - Priceless
I don't think I like a 66% drop much better.
...the terrorists will be able to shut down the whole department-- they just need someone to pose as a "disgruntled former employee" and call the BSA tipline. The resulting software license audit will tie up DHS resources, and for a while the terrorists will have carte blanche to prepare their next attack.
"Well, two organizations support Microsoft, only one against" said Tom Ridge. "I guess that means we'll stick with Microsoft!"