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Re: Microsoft prepares security assault on Linux
From: vb () dontpanic ulm ccc de
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 12:06:32 +0100
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 04:15:14PM -0800, Charles E. Hill wrote:
2. A commercial company providing with liability (and responsibility) for the software you use (in other words - someone to blame).What commercial software company actually offers guarantees and some form of liability? I've *never* heard of anyone successfully suing MS or Oracle or anyone else for their software screwing up. SAYING you can blame Microsoft is one thing -- doing it (other than pointing fingers) is another.
I now for four times acted as following: I bought a single support call from Microsoft. We together detected that my problem was caused by errors in Microsoft code. They corrected. I paid nothing because Microsoft's support is free if the error was caused by errors of Microsoft. The support was friendly, helpful and quick. That is one reason because I have nothing against Microsoft. Of course, no one paid me the work I did. And there are big problems with Windoze 2k and WiXP, sometimes so big problems that I will not use such systems except if I'm forced to. Windows NT is getting worse. Unfortunately. For security reasons Windows is disastrous. VB. -- Volker Birk, Postfach 1540, 88334 Bad Waldsee, Germany Phone +49 (7524) 912142, Fax +49 (7524) 996807, dingens () bumens org http://fdik.org, Deutsches IRCNet fdik!~c_vbirk () wega rz uni-ulm de PGP-Key: http://www.x-pie.de/vb.asc _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
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