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Microsoft Silently Backs Favorable Presentation at RSA

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the part-of-the-machine dept.

lildogie writes "Two researchers, from the Florida Institute of Technology and Boston-based Security Innovation Inc., 'surprised the audience at a computer-security convention last month with their finding that a version of Microsoft Windows was more secure than a competing Linux operating system' according to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. 'This week, the researchers released their finished report, and it included another surprise: Microsoft was funding the project all along.' When will they ever learn?"

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  1. Money vs Ideology by Rostin · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    The stories are stupid. What no one EVER comments on is the research itself, only that it is obviously wrong because M$ funded it. (Of course, that's really just icing on the cake. Any research favoring M$ is automatically wrong, we all know.)

    Also, what no one ever mentions when research favors OSS is ideological bias. What's especially interesting about the second thing is that it should be obvious that it exists, because we are neck deep in it here.

  2. Re:from the article by KarmaMB84 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    So Linux is all about taking control away from me? Isn't the computer mine? Why should I run software that is going to make things hard and deny me freedom?