[28617] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Re: product liability (was: Virus Update)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roeland Meyer (E-mail))
Tue May 9 18:26:44 2000
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From: "Roeland Meyer (E-mail)" <rmeyer@mhsc.com>
To: <smcmahon@eiv.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 15:17:34 -0700
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I guess that they've fullfilled theor promise now, don't you?
There is very little training time necessary to write such code for =
Windoze.
<grin>
> Shawn McMahon: Tuesday, May 09, 2000 2:45 PM
>=20
> On Tue, 9 May 2000, Jim Mercer wrote:
> > it is not enough to say that people don't have time to read=20
> and/or patch their systems.
> >=20
> > that is like saying that there is no time to train school=20
> bus drivers, just send them out to pick up our kids.
> You're talking about a product sold under the advertising promise that
> little to no training is necessary, and with default behavior=20
> that makes it
> TRIVIAL to write crap like this.
>=20
> Not just possible; not even easy, but TRIVIAL. Any high=20
> school kid with a
> couple of "Idiots Guide to Visual Basic in 21 Days for=20
> Dummies" books under
> his belt could have written this, and if he'd had a class on=20
> programming
> he'd have written better code than this piece of crap.
