[Fury]

Re: 268 - Just one note:

“...and the fact he’s a washed-up computer geek who couldn’t even protect against COMPUTER viruses”

Give an example of ANY OS that protects against COMPUTER viruses to the degree you are suggesting. Hint, not many people use OpenVMS any more (and it got affected by the Morris Worn and WANK). It’s not relevant.

[grey_whiskers]

Not exactly; the, hmmm, "interoperability" (as full of holes as a Swiss Cheese) *philosophy* behind OpenVMS permeated the Gates thinking. He has also long used his own paying customers as beta testers; such contempt goes hand in hand with looking at vulnerabilities as a way to make money selling patches, (and possibly by selling backdoors/zero-day exploits,wink,nudge) to 3-letter agencies, rather than stressing a secure product from the ground up. I appreciate your knowledge to link to openVMS though.

(Good robust boundary and type checking help. I remember an instructor in OBIEE showing us how to hack through the initial screen to get at passwords or root or something of that level of calamity. He ran through it at light speed just to show it, not fast enough that we could follow.)