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Re: Thompson vs. MSFT. Dog Not Hunting.

ivan — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 21:38:17 -0000

hey, I'm a cool kid (or maybe not, but Gartner says so) and I do not hold neither microsoft, veritas, symantec, oracle nor any other vendor in much steem, maybe not even ourselves :)

But guess which vendors are the most arrogant and adamant about how really really really secure they are now? (...openbsd does not count, they've done eveything 5 years before).
Spending billions may mean alot in absolute terms but I don't know how it compares to spending a lot less but having a much higher yield on your security investement. There, one for the metric-lovers to work on.

Re: Thompson vs. MSFT. Dog Not Hunting.

Thomas Ptacek — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 19:05:23 -0000

If you don't know who the cool kids are, or what makes them cool, then you aren't cool enough to know what makes them relevent technically.

But that's OK, Byron, you can sit at our lunchroom table anytime.

Re: Thompson vs. MSFT. Dog Not Hunting.

Byron Sonne — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 17:29:20 -0000

'cool kids'... Cool?

Since when was that any kind of legit basis for judging something technical?