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Re: What do you want your ISP to block today?

  • From: Vadim Antonov
  • Date: Mon Sep 01 08:38:39 2003


When you don't have liability you don't have to worry about quality.

What we need is lemon laws for software.

--vadim

On 1 Sep 2003, Paul Vixie wrote:

> 
> > ... Micr0$0ft's level of engineered-in vulnerabilities and wanton
> > disregard for security in the name of features.  ...
> 
> i can't see it.  i know folks who write code at microsoft and they worry
> as much about security bugs as people who work at other places or who do
> software as a hobby.  the problem microsoft has with software quality that
> they have no competition, and their marketing people know that ship dates
> will drive total dollar volume regardless of quality.  (when you have
> competition, you have to worry about quality; when you don't, you don't.)
> 





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