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Re: off-topic rant Re: product liability (was: Virus Update)


From: Bruce Campbell <bc () vicious dropbear id au>
Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 10:13:08 +1000 (EST)


On Tue, 9 May 2000, brad reynolds wrote:

microsoft doesn't hold a gun to anyone's head, microsoft seems to provide 
patches for their software when bugs are found.  

Yes, they certainly do 'provide patches for their software when bugs are
found'.  The page below details how long it took Microsoft to fix a simple
web page of theirs after a bug was found in it:

        http://www.uq.edu.au/~suter/microsoft/

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Bruce.




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