There's a high chance that Symantec are pissy because they have no market share for Unix and no chance of getting one. They won't get a market because the built in Unix securty is good enough. (Note that the Windows NT line would be more secure than Unix if people would just stop logging in as Administrator).

But you can bet there will be a Symantec SafeGuard for .NET (TM) or some garbage like that. Mono won't need it because most GNU programmers are raving paranoiacs who build security in from the word go. MS likes to leave a few security holes in for future upgrade releases.

So in a way Chien is absolutely correct. The GNU programmers won't be following standards when it comes to securing your data - they will be exceeding them.

I could, and possibly should spend the rest of this post bashing the computer press who seem to be less sophisticated than their readers, but it's breakfast time.

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Jeremy
I didn't believe in evil until I dated it.

In reply to Re: (OT) The Stupid Leading the Blind, or Is It Just Me? by jepri
in thread (OT) The Stupid Leading the Blind, or Is It Just Me? by Ovid

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