[ale] Experts: Reliance On Microsoft A Danger To National Security

[Dow Hurst]

Way cool!  However, would you want MS Office for Linux as your office 
app?  Or, would you prefer OpenOffice.org software if your workstation 
was running Linux?  It was funny to hear the MS spokesman saying that 
security was their top priority.  That is bullhonky if I ever heard it.  
Profits only, is the name of the game with MS.  Or, we would have seen 
some differences in their products this past offering.  Or, the offering 
would have taken a lot longer to hit the market.
Dow


F. Grant Robertson wrote:

>Finally someone is saying it.. please let there be more to come..
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>http://www.crn.com/sections/BreakingNews/dailyarchives.asp?ArticleID=44741
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>"Microsoft's monopoly threatens consumers in a number of ways, it it's clear it is now also a threat to our security, our safety, and even our national security."  - Ed Black, CEO of CCIA
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>Enterprises, organizations, and government agencies must wake up to the fact that there are ramifications to their decisions to buy Microsoft, added Schneier. "Because everyone's buying it, there are security implications to your decision to buy what everyone else is buying. You need to take that into consideration." 
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>"When the government uses a product whose monopoly position undermines its security, anti-trust becomes a national security issue," said Geer
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