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Q: Some people hold Microsoft most accountable for security problems, even though software flaws are exploited by "bad guys," as you said. Is that a fair criticism?

Gates: Software in general, whether it was from Microsoft or somebody else, was not set up for an environment where all the computers were connected together. So it's not like there was some software that had this security capability and our software did not. As we use the Internet to connect everyone up, then the need to essentially have suspicion and only listen to certain other systems, and if flaws come up to have those updated very quickly, that became a new requirement.
It's about halfway down in this Seattle Post-Intelligencer interview.

Date: 2005-09-16 08:48 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] ewx.livejournal.com
Gates is talking out of his bottom, but reading even just the subject lines of BUGTRAQ makes me think that the UNIX world has learned far from enough from the Morris worm.

Date: 2005-09-16 05:31 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] ronebofh.livejournal.com
Definitely, but i don't think anyone on Our Side is in denial about it.

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