RE: NT vs Unix on the Internet

[Ted Doty <ted () iss net>]

At 07:49 AM 5/5/98 -0600, Paquette, Trevor wrote:

> The difference between Unix vendors and Microsoft, from my experience,
> is that you are now depending on a huge, slow, "it's not a bug it's a
> feature" attitude from Microsoft.

In all fairness to Microsoft, they are no worse than most (and better than
some) of the Unix vendors in providing patches, at least to the problems
we've reported to them.  I certainly don't consider the "it's not a bug,
it's a feature" attitude confined exclusively to Redmond.

- Ted

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