-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : `. `'` proud Debian admin and user `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fix a system -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/oa1oUzgNqloQMwcRAng4AKDDWev0f4cjk8evSrfBRzM4RnWElQCgqao2 N5oBNLgQgsHeglPJX5rSVYs= =U3Xv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
