A quick google for "bill gates uses a mac" turns up only one relevant link on the first page, and that's from a site that has such gems as:
Microsoft secret password could allow access to Web sites - Microsoft said its engineers included a secret password using the phrase "Netscape engineers are weenies!" in Web site authoring software that could allow hackers to gain unauthorized access to potentially thousands of Web sites.
When Windows first shipped, 20 years ago this month, it was considered nothing more than a slow operating environment that had arrived late to the party, well behind the industry leaders, Apple and Xerox PARC. Today, not much has changed.
That's not security by obsurity. That's "at least give us a chance to fix it before you tell the crackers." The Mozilla guys tell exactly the same tale.
Mr Marshall strings together a series of misconceptions and misinformation that looks like the arguments of any generic IT manager who has heard of open source but doesn't really know all that much about it. He makes absolutely no attempt to back up his claims with any form of evidence or example. A good portion of the article can be debunked by inspection, the rest goes up in flames when held against The Cathedral and the Bazaar, Homesteading the Noosphere and The Magic Cauldron, (which I'm sure most Slashdotters have read) all of which were written after years of experience and study of hacker culture, rather than just a glance at the surface of "the most influential and talked about phenomenon to hit the computer industry since the invention of the microprocessor."
In short this is nothing more than an opinion piece, definitely not news.
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When Windows first shipped, 20 years ago this month, it was considered nothing more than a slow operating environment that had arrived late to the party, well behind the industry leaders, Apple and Xerox PARC. Today, not much has changed.
Yeah the direction of crummy little Java games - now in crummy 3D!
I understand now, it's the GPL that's been holding Linux back! That's why (Free|Net|Open)BSD is so much more popular!
GTFO furry!
That's not security by obsurity. That's "at least give us a chance to fix it before you tell the crackers." The Mozilla guys tell exactly the same tale.
I want one of these babies!
I've been reading it since way before I got fired, and that was ages ago, so definitely not new.
Mr Marshall strings together a series of misconceptions and misinformation that looks like the arguments of any generic IT manager who has heard of open source but doesn't really know all that much about it. He makes absolutely no attempt to back up his claims with any form of evidence or example. A good portion of the article can be debunked by inspection, the rest goes up in flames when held against The Cathedral and the Bazaar, Homesteading the Noosphere and The Magic Cauldron, (which I'm sure most Slashdotters have read) all of which were written after years of experience and study of hacker culture, rather than just a glance at the surface of "the most influential and talked about phenomenon to hit the computer industry since the invention of the microprocessor."
In short this is nothing more than an opinion piece, definitely not news.