Re: Microsoft good press over Longhorn
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On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 01:00:59PM -0500, Kevin MacNeil wrote:
> Microsoft's software has always sucked, so I can't imagine they're
> losing too much sleep over quality or security, their Trusted
> Computing(tm) initiative notwithstanding.
Well, depends on what software we're talking about. Microsoft can't
make an OS, but Train Sim was fun.
> Personally, I think Trusted Computing is intended for Microsoft, the
> various large copyright holders, and <tinfoil-hat-alert>three-letter
> government agencies</tinfoil-hat-alert>,
Umm, the NSA doesn't like Windows. They actually maintain their own
set of kernel patches to make Linux more secure.
http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/index.html
Another three-letter agency, the ESD in Multnomah County, Oregon...you
know, the one that got threatened by Microsoft[1], created their own
Linux distribution years before Microsoft threatened them.
http://w3.mesd.k12.or.us/ Multnomah ESD
http://www.k12ltsp.org/ Their distro
Needless to say, Multnomah ESD did *not* take kindly to threats and
said, "Oh, in that case, we'll just use our in-house OS everywhere.
Screw you." When Microsoft backed down, unfortunately, the ESD went
to their original conversion timeline, which is pretty glacial. At
least it's getting done.
[1] http://slashdot.org/articles/02/04/22/1719218.shtml?tid=109
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