Re: [school-discuss] microsoft lobbying government to squelch linux

["Richard Smedley" <richard.smedley@futurenet.co.uk>]

mikee wrote:
> 
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60050-2002May22.html

I liked the (stupid) quote:

              "I've never seen a systematic study that showed open
              source to be more secure," said Dorothy Denning, a
              professor of computer science at Georgetown University
              who specializes in information warfare.

She was certainly doing her job (information warfare ;-)

- Richard

FYI In the article MS complain that your (USA) government
is subsidising Free Software (MS's competitor) by supporting
it'sdevelopment.
In Europe MS has persuaded the UK gov to pay for the development
of the government gateway portal software which MS keeps to sell
to other govts, and collect further licensing revenue from the 
UK govt (or, rather, its hapless tax payers).
Funny old world, eh? :-/

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