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Symantec and McAfee
On Thu, 05 Oct 2006 08:32:04 GMT, "altheim"
wrote: "Dave Neve" wrote: Hello I'd like to know what people think about Symantec and McAfee criticising Microsoft's Vista for having it's own security suite I'm no fan of Bill Gates and Microsoft but even I sympathise with them on this one. [...] I actually *am* a fan of Bill Gates and Microsoft. I think they take a lot of unwarranted stick from critics for exploiting valid business opportunities (that they tend to market buggy software is another matter for which they do deserve criticism IMO). As in the anti-trust indictments, which hinged on whether or not a web browser could be considered part of the operating system, the question comes down again to whether or not security measures can be considered part of the operating system. Personally I think they most indubitably should and MS should have worked on installing better security decades ago - not just now. Because they didn't, Symantec saw the gap in the market and took advantage and, whatever you think of Norton AV (personally I hate it), you can't blame Symantec for wanting to protect their business. However, better late than never. Symantec et al have had their day and should go. Monopolies like MS are always despised for their power and wealth but that is the very worst of reasons for hating them; there are some industries (think of telephones, railways, gas distribition) in which a monopoly works better by reason of standardisation. Computers would all work better if there was only one OS. And I can almost bet that the one OS (in your mind, at least) would be OS X, Linux, or Unix. Anything but the Windows OS. Donald L McDaniel Please reply to the original thread and newsgroup. --------------------------------------------------------- |
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