[Am-info] Microsoft To Kill Popular Linux Antivirus Product

[Mark Dodel]

In <200306121804.14792.fmiller@lightlink.com>, on 06/12/03 at 06:04 PM,
   "Fred A. Miller" <fmiller@lightlink.com> said:

>Microsoft To Kill Popular Linux Antivirus Product

>The RAV product line comes from Romania's GeCAD Software Srl, which
>Microsoft said yesterday it is buying.

>http://computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,82045,00.html?nlid=SEC2

With all the antivirus developers around is this really a major deal? 
Aren't there others that provide this for Linux?  

Also sInce almost every current virus is win32 related anyway, does anyone
really need this on Linux?  I'm sure Norton/Norman/Kaspersky and the
others are not happy, but they've been able to make a lot almost solely on
the basis of microsoft's deliberately insecure application design. 
microsoft could easily remove most of the need for this type of
application if they stopped producing such poorly designed products.  And
if the predatory monopolists would lose some of their market share then
fewer people would be vulnerable to this nonsense.

BTW, why did you mark this as OT when in fact I think it is completely on
topic?  microsoft is making a play to quash another segment of the
developer community.  That is something we should all be aware of, and in
fact the people beyond this list should know as well.


Mark


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