[Am-info] A question of trust

[Fred A. Miller]

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"Trusting Microsoft=20

Yet I cannot help but worry that while some of the bright people at Micro=
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research are proposing to store all of this data their colleagues over in=
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operating system department cannot reliably get all the bugs out of their=
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main products.=20

If the tens of thousands of person years that went into writing and testi=
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Windows XP were not enough to spot a problem in a central part of the=20
program, the Data Access Component, then what is the point of dreaming su=
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big dreams?=20

Utopian ideas that we can all somehow put total faith in our computers ar=
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pushed on an unsuspecting public=20

It gets worse. The nature of the bug in Internet Explorer means that it c=
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actually be permanently fixed without making it impossible to access larg=
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numbers of websites that have relied on using Microsoft servers and=20
Microsoft's non-standard web technology in the past."

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"DRM.. Digitally Retarded Media. That's exactly what it is - content
that cannot reach its full potential because of artificial restraints." -=
Paul=20
Rickard

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