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Story: Microsoft: Open source 'not reliable or dependable'

Posted by: Arthur B. (Saturday 20 May 2006, 12:04 AM)

DNS, SMTP, SNMP, TCP/IP, etc, etc.

All Open Source and without it their wouldn't be an Internet and around the globe Microsoft networks would stop functioning.

I dare Microsoft to ban all Open Source related depandencies for all of their own products with their next security patch release and put their money where their mouth is.

Should they do that then Microsoft will have to file for Chapter 11 within three months.

At least Microsoft should explain in public to their high paying customers why Microsoft requires it's customers to still depand on 'not reliable or dependable' technologies. Is that perhaps the reason why so often freezes, unscheduled reboots and what not happens? Mind you, more so then when other, alternative, solutions are put in place.

The real truth is that the Western world can't survive a sudden and complete loss of everything Open Source yet, although difficult, if the same would happen to Microsoft then the impact wouldn't be so high by far. Think about it: loss of communication versus loss of product. With the added fact that Open Source has product replacements in place and working but the other way around there's nothing.

If you are not aware of that fact then you've been sadly misinformed by whomever you take advise from. In such a case the only question remaining is: why? What's to gain from misleading you?