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You say that Microsoft is out to make more billions like it was a bad thing.

Um, well of course Microsoft wants to make billions. They are a business. Businesses are about making money. Unless you want to throw out capitalism, this is going to continue to be the case.

Were Microsoft taken out, would that improve things? I rather strongly doubt it. The problem isn't which company is currently top of the heap. Whether it is Microsoft, Sony, AOL, Oracle etc doesn't really matter. What matters is that companies which shortchange security are likely to make plenty more billions of dollars.

Until that is solved, the specific advisories are just symptoms.

Moving beyond that though, claims that Big Bad Evil Microsoft was negligent would be more reasonable if they made mistakes which were out of line with the current state of the art. Do they? Well they make mistakes that are out of line with what people who care about security think that we should expect. But they don't (that I see) make mistakes that are out of line with the norm among software developers. The ones at the Monastery included.


In reply to What is the real problem here? by tilly
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