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Re: Where are you guys standing re: the (full) disclosure


From: Gary Baribault <gary () baribault net>
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2013 12:28:43 -0500

Rather harsh don't you think? I'm all for OSS but I have expenses and
need to make money. Yes M$ makes money, but I think their ethical just
as much as any other company .. is IBM ethical? Is HP ethical? Is Dell
(the company) ethical? They all are to some degree. M$ has a HUGE
installed base of software and need more time to repair things because
of the time it takes to do regressive testing, that makes them slow, but
not necessarily unethical. Sure we'd love them to jump on every bug we
find, fix them fast and some people want to be paid for that bug as
well. I know they've pissed many people off over time, but I don't think
their any less ethical than any other for profit company, and if we have
no for $$$ companies, then who is going to pay our salaries?

Gary B


 On 12/13/2013 12:17 PM, Georgi Guninski wrote:
On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 03:27:21PM +0000, imipak wrote:
On 13/12/13 15:06, Mikhail A. Utin wrote:
Answers:
[...]
2. If you keep it for yourself - no problems. If you disclose on Internet
before informing M$, there is certain risk, but first of all it is not
ethical.

Sure it is. It's just a different set of ethics than the ones you (or I)
would adhere to. "Ethics" isn't a universal absolute.


\a


Are M$ ethical? 

Their ethics boils down to making money,
which is not different from a commercial
botnet IMO.


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