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To: paulklenk
Why are there products so vulnerable to security breaches? Because it is theoretically impossible to debug a large program.

It is amazing that there are relatively few bugs, and updates are coming up regularly.

Now, given your impatience with MS, how many operating systems have you written?

26 posted on 09/11/2002 2:21:27 PM PDT by TopQuark
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To: TopQuark
Now, given your impatience with MS, how many operating systems have you written?

I confess I haven't written any.

On the other hand, MS has written SIX PC OS's (95, NT4, 98, ME, 2000, XP) in the last seven years.

Eight if you count 98SE and the two flavors of XP.

I guess that makes them better.

Or something.

38 posted on 09/11/2002 2:55:34 PM PDT by Charlotte Corday
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To: TopQuark
Now, given your impatience with MS, how many operating systems have you written?

Jeez. What a question. How many automobiles have you built? Do you have to build one--or just pay for one--to be angry when it breaks?

46 posted on 09/11/2002 3:42:42 PM PDT by jammer
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To: TopQuark
how many operating systems have you written?

What does that have to do with anything? If someone like Linus Torvalds or Alan Cox criticizes Windows are you going to tell him to STFU? Yeah, actually you probably would.

69 posted on 09/11/2002 7:49:17 PM PDT by dheretic
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