[60515] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How much longer..
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen J. Wilcox)
Wed Aug 13 14:49:01 2003
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 19:48:08 +0100 (BST)
From: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@telecomplete.co.uk>
To: Len Rose <len@netsys.com>
Cc: *Hobbit* <hobbit@avian.org>, <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20030813172608.GF22570@netsys.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Len Rose wrote:
>
> Hi.. just think if the billions of dollars being spent on M$
> products could have been funneled into open source projects.
>
> To reinforce the point in the most blunt manner possible:
>
> No one had ever better dare postulate that the inherent reason
> for all of the vulnerabilities in Micro$oft products are due
> to any special features of note.
>
> There is no particular network-enabled feature that Windows has
> that UNIX didn't implement years before and has done so securely
> following established internet design standards adopted by the
> ruling standards body (IETF) after intense study and open participation
> from all parties who were interested.
>
> Now knee-jerk reactions by various network operators is to
> filter, filter, filter and soon, by the grace of a piece of
> crap operating system you'll have a much more limited internet
> to work with because for Micro$oft's sake they've filtered everything.
Hey I like MS bashing as much as anyone else but the fact is you could say this
of any vendor.. a good recent example being Cisco
