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Re: Anti-MS drivel
From: Nick FitzGerald <nick () virus-l demon co uk>
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 12:57:25 +1300
Bart.Lansing () kohls com wrote:
Tobias, I have to tell you that >>Customer is king. When a customer "makes a mistake" then it's not his own but the vendor's mistake.<< is getting old. 1. If the customer decided to make a sharp left turn at 120 kph on an icy mountain road and slid his car off the side of the cliff...or... 2. If the customer decided to ignore the product warnings and popped that can of beans in the microwave then stood there with his face against the window to watch...or... 3. If the customer decided to go scuba diving at 100 meters, ignored the guages that told him he was out of air, then decided to rocket to the surface as fast as he could so he could get a breath... THE CUSTOMER MADE A MISTAKE
True, but in all those cases it is reasonable to expect that a (reasonable) customer _should_ know better. The problem -- at least with "consumer computers" -- is that typical consumers do not (and, it seems, for quite some time to come yet, will not) "know better". However, we keep selling them computers as if the mismatch between the devices' capability and the user's ability to use them safely are in harmony. This assumption clearly does not even hold for much of the corporate world (or at least _has not_), where supposedly "expert" folk are responsible for running the computer systems much of our financial systems, and thus our commerce, now depends on. Despite this, the computer industry was allowed to expand and expand and expand to the point where any attempt to regulate it would have had massive negative social, economic and political repercussions, meaning we ended up in the situation of self-sustaining (commercial) madness that produced Windows XP Home... Regards, Nick FitzGerald _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
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