This article could have been lifted straight from the pages of the National Enquirer. You've got a so-called "authority" that nobody has ever heard of, warning that there "may be backdoors" in some unspecified software. There's NOTHING specific here, no real information, just some lunatic jumping up and down and shouting.
So, of course, half of Slashdot starts screaming about how "Microsoft is downloading all our personal information!"
Actually, the few programmers who are still out there doing DOS-specific stuff can make pretty good money. Yeah, there are only six positions in the world for somebody who can write a DVD driver to hook up to Compaq DOS 2.11-- but if there are only three people who can do that, they're going to be JUST fine. Supply and demand are only meaningful in relation to each other.
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This article could have been lifted straight from the pages of the National Enquirer. You've got a so-called "authority" that nobody has ever heard of, warning that there "may be backdoors" in some unspecified software. There's NOTHING specific here, no real information, just some lunatic jumping up and down and shouting.
So, of course, half of Slashdot starts screaming about how "Microsoft is downloading all our personal information!"Yeesh.
Actually, the few programmers who are still out there doing DOS-specific stuff can make pretty good money. Yeah, there are only six positions in the world for somebody who can write a DVD driver to hook up to Compaq DOS 2.11-- but if there are only three people who can do that, they're going to be JUST fine. Supply and demand are only meaningful in relation to each other.