Funny, I know many people that have Windows 2000 installed. Works fine for them, as it does for me. But then, I also think you are a troll who just gets off on bashing Microsoft, and are probably lying. I also have seen Windows 2000 work perfectly on a machine in front of my eyes. But then, the same installation (a Ghosted installation, no less), on the same hardware, purchased the same day at the same vendor has been blue screening about every 15mn. The only thing different between the two installations is... the user. I don't think Windows 2000 is that stable:)
That is, provided these developpers want to. I used to work for a small network security firm. We found (yet another) denial of service in Lotus Notes. We submitted to Lotus. No words. Nothing.
Then we posted on Bugtraq. 2 hours later, we got the "we're working on it, we're working on it" notice. Sometimes the developpers are working on something else, and have different priorities.
Right now, I'm getting the same questions here: do we open source our server or not? Eeeek, if we open source it, every hacker out there will find the holes in no time and cheat like mad (nevermind the serious folks, who would not have done anything, and who will report the bugs they find).
I was on Chinet (from France, using X25 to access a public dialout in the area) back in these days. I even had a custom script to pull news out of its spool and batch them to my system for later perusal. I'm not sure if it was Unix in '82, but it certainly was in '85 when I was on.
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Funny, I know many people that have Windows 2000 installed. Works fine for them, as it does for me. But then, I also think you are a troll who just gets off on bashing Microsoft, and are probably lying. :)
I also have seen Windows 2000 work perfectly on a machine in front of my eyes. But then, the same installation (a Ghosted installation, no less), on the same hardware, purchased the same day at the same vendor has been blue screening about every 15mn. The only thing different between the two installations is... the user.
I don't think Windows 2000 is that stable
... although the seti folks have ceased supporting the netbsd version of their software and have no plans to upgrade it to the 2.x version...
:(
Well, seeing as the Seti folks stopped allowing 1.x clients yesterday, you are in trouble now
That is, provided these developpers want to. I used to work for a small network security firm. We found (yet another) denial of service in Lotus Notes. We submitted to Lotus. No words. Nothing.
Then we posted on Bugtraq. 2 hours later, we got the "we're working on it, we're working on it" notice. Sometimes the developpers are working on something else, and have different priorities.
Right now, I'm getting the same questions here: do we open source our server or not? Eeeek, if we open source it, every hacker out there will find the holes in no time and cheat like mad (nevermind the serious folks, who would not have done anything, and who will report the bugs they find).
I was on Chinet (from France, using X25 to access a public dialout in the area) back in these days. I even had a custom script to pull news out of its spool and batch them to my system for later perusal. I'm not sure if it was Unix in '82, but it certainly was in '85 when I was on.