| Subject: Re: there's a firefly in my brain |
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Geo
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Date Posted: 01/13/06 10:08:42am
In reply to:
pjk
's message, "Re: there's a firefly in my brain" on 01/12/06 3:12:12pm
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>It's perhaps half comparable to what used to be the
>copyright laws - the idea that the inventor makes
>money for a certain period of time, but then the work
>is released to the public for the benefit of
>society...
you're thinking of patents, but we got the point.
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>Yeah - We want to keep the goodwill to a minimum
>otherwise who are "we" going to make money from "our"
>product.
yup, dat's whats pays the taxes for teacher's salaries and pension funding...
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>Not a snark question, but how many patches exist for
>microsquash users? Why is the platform so vulnerable?
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boy - I don't know if the number of patches question is answerable. One way would be to say "the latest".
"It" (windows, iexplorer, instant messenger, outlook, etc.) is vulnerable mostly for historic reasons, and to boil it down to the most simplistic answer would be "personal" as in personal computer. Windows was initially meant to run one machine, no network, no multiple users, security was just keep the computer in a locked room. UNIX was quite the opposite, having security measures built in from the start (passwords, permissions, code segmentation, etc.). MS built on windows and cobbled new features in - like networking.But only after companies like Novell were eating their lunch. So, rather than do it right, they did it patchwork, and left holes. Being backward compatible to protect customers investments was also part of the problem.
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