[61636] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: What do you want your ISP to block today?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vadim Antonov)
Mon Sep 1 08:37:12 2003
Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 05:31:20 -0700 (PDT)
From: Vadim Antonov <avg@kotovnik.com>
To: Paul Vixie <vixie@vix.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <g3vfsd1bdy.fsf@sa.vix.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
When you don't have liability you don't have to worry about quality.
What we need is lemon laws for software.
--vadim
On 1 Sep 2003, Paul Vixie wrote:
>
> > ... Micr0$0ft's level of engineered-in vulnerabilities and wanton
> > disregard for security in the name of features. ...
>
> i can't see it. i know folks who write code at microsoft and they worry
> as much about security bugs as people who work at other places or who do
> software as a hobby. the problem microsoft has with software quality that
> they have no competition, and their marketing people know that ship dates
> will drive total dollar volume regardless of quality. (when you have
> competition, you have to worry about quality; when you don't, you don't.)
>
