Steve Ballmer Questions Open Source Code Security

[William Park]

On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 07:06:51PM -0500, JoeHill wrote:
> He seems to have a thing about China...he was quoted somewhere, I can't
> remember where now, about security patches for open-source
> software coming from"someone in China in the middle of the night...".
> He's losing it; Linux is getting to him; they're losing server market
> share; MS Enterprise salespeople are finding it tough to convince
> clients that MS is the way to go when the internet is awash with MS
> security exploits.
> 
> http://news.com.com/2100-1009_3-5072672.html?tag=fd_top
> 
> http://www.entmag.com/news/article.asp?EditorialsID=1883
> 
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/30426.html

Yes, and look at all those IT jobs that Microsoft created.

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