imprimis, I think you are on the money when you comapre the monolithic economic approach to pouring money at the M$ security issues. I am constantly amazed at the insidious and invidious drain on the US treasury for M$ support, products, etc.
When I consider the costs of running the military in a non-war economy, and the use of computers to every aspect of government, I must ask myself this: Why do the powers that be not finance the development of a GPL OS, POSIX based, GUI'd, etc?
It would be much cheaper, much more reliable, and infinitely more secure.
In terms of the Big Brother Is Watching You Crowd, maybe they should leave M$ to the open market after all. That way they can sneak into your systems at night and search your hardware for criminal activity and traitorous evidence.
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imprimis, I think you are on the money when you comapre the monolithic economic approach to pouring money at the M$ security issues. I am constantly amazed at the insidious and invidious drain on the US treasury for M$ support, products, etc. When I consider the costs of running the military in a non-war economy, and the use of computers to every aspect of government, I must ask myself this: Why do the powers that be not finance the development of a GPL OS, POSIX based, GUI'd, etc? It would be much cheaper, much more reliable, and infinitely more secure. In terms of the Big Brother Is Watching You Crowd, maybe they should leave M$ to the open market after all. That way they can sneak into your systems at night and search your hardware for criminal activity and traitorous evidence.