, 2002-06-19
The use of "terrorism" and "national security" are shameful attempts to use fear, uncertainty, and doubt to push Microsoft's monopolistic agenda.
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Alexis de Tocqueville Serves Up a Red Herring
, 2002-06-19 The use of "terrorism" and "national security" are shameful attempts to use fear, uncertainty, and doubt to push Microsoft's monopolistic agenda.
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Your points are well taken. However, you misinformed about a few things:
1) Our paper has almost a three-page section on the government and GPL, which discussed security issues, such as classified source code and the risk of breaches in peer review groups. You didn't respond to any of them. Not that you are obliged to, but if you are responding to the paper you should read the paper.
2) Our paper was not clever marketing, but reality. The government budgets billions of dollars annually just for IT security. We are discussing the risks of moving from a proprietary to os. We have had significant government response to the paper. You should respond to the arguments...I think you are well qualified to discuss security risk.
3) A sharp guy like you knows that the government has thousands of vendors that sell it proprietary software. The MSFT bogeyman stuff is beneath you. Make your arguments, I would like to respond.
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