Yep, 50 millions lines of C++ code that is not structured with a great deal
of sensible foresight. ms's arrogance truly carries over into their coding
practices. I can say this having known two of their os developers, both of
whom I would characterize as arrogant and crass.
Smitty
On Wednesday 08 August 2001 15:20, you wrote:
> One of MS's problems is that there ARE architectural problems which
> they can't fix without breaking compatibility. The scripting
> capabilities of Outlook for instance have been used as a _selling_
> point..and that is its greatest weakness. Hard to take that one back
> now.
>
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> On Wed, 8 Aug 2001, Wyly Wade wrote:
> > ***Disclaimer***
> > I am not a windows advocate
> > ***end Disclaimer***
> >
> > Bugs and exploiting of bugs is a fact of software. Linux and Windows
> > share the amount and level of bugs pretty equally. The reason you do not
> > hear about the Linux exploits nearly as much is only because it does not
> > have the level of media attention that MS does. I would offer that most
> > of the exploits in windows are primarily harmless or just DOS attacks
> > which can be fixed architecturally. Most of your Linux bugs seem to
> > offer more visibility for a remote user to exploit more than the common
> > widows bug. I would be leery jumping up and down about the quality of
> > security in Linux because while it has different strengths than windows
> > it also has some extreme weaknesses as well.
> >
> > Just my .02$
> >
> > Wyly Wade
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