Re: Security dumming down - the king's clothes

["R. DuFresne" <dufresne () sysinfo com>]

On Fri, 12 Dec 2003, Marcus J. Ranum wrote:


        [SNIP]

> A lot of folks recognize that the emperor has no clothes. The
> question is: why? Microsoft's stuff is certainly PART of the problem
> but another big piece of the problem is that people insist on buying
> it and don't manage it right. There's enough blame to go around
> and just assuming a conspiracy is too simplistic. 

***
> The truth is a more
> complex combination of clueless customers, cruddy code, incompetent
> federal IT workers, consultants out for a buck, marketing idiots, and
> a dash of denial.
***


Which still perhaps boils down to a depth of pockets as well as breadth of
market penetration arguments doesn't it?  Those 'incompetent federal IT
workers' recognise Windows as a 'standard', and the 'marketing idiots' and
'consultants out for a buck' make their bread off the recognised
'standard'...<smile> A twisted circle forming an infinite economic race
track?


Thanks,

Ron DuFresne
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