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i agree with you
MS shoudl be held accountable for all of their mistakes and to fix their stuff. What i said was impractical was forcing them to replace their product with a competitors.. especially Apple/Mac.

Imagine the amount of headaches when joe "non-tech" is given a CD and told, here, this will fix windows, just install it. After some wrangling, he'll install loinux as a "full" installation is stuff that he doesn't need and probably wont know to patch... guess what.. lion v.2 or ramen v.2 and we are back at square one. While i agree that Windows is INHERANTLY more insecure than LInux because of it's core ties... a mass switch to Linux w/o proper education would be just as bad.

What i see as the solution are either:
1) force MS to continue supporting and product that they sell or offer free upgrades to their supported versions if a major hole is found.
2) force ms (and any other software company) to release into public domain, any code that they've sold, but no longer support. this way it can be supported by the community of it's own users at no cost to the company.
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In a way this is good  Chad_z | 10/23/03
And Microsoft is releasing patches monthly  Squawkbox | 10/23/03
old old OSs  lmaxwell | 10/23/03
bad analogy  ryusen | 10/23/03
Another pitiful analogy  zd-spam | 10/23/03
Car Analogys & EULAs  The Real Bitch | 10/27/03
But polluting cars aren't defective when new  KeithRisler | 10/24/03
trustworthy NOTHING!  stephen732@... | 10/24/03
Depends on the car, actually  John Zern | 10/25/03
Windows not necessarily defective..  John Zern | 10/25/03
impractical  ryusen | 10/23/03
LOL, M$ buying Linux for all M$OS-ers would be cheaper!  dicktaurus@... | 10/23/03
at what cost to their business?  ryusen | 10/24/03
Impractical? What ya gonna do when the hammer falls  Squawkbox | 10/24/03
i agree with you  ryusen | 10/24/03
ZZ Glad we agree  Squawkbox | 10/24/03
The best advertisements for Linux and Macs  FilledOut | 10/23/03
couple questions  JoeMama_z | 10/23/03
Rubbing your hands...  michael-t | 10/23/03
wowzers  JoeMama_z | 10/23/03
LOL  stephen732@... | 10/24/03
it pays to diversify  stephen732@... | 10/24/03
blind  stephen732@... | 10/24/03
Answer to A Couple of Questions  Rabid Conservative | 10/24/03
Here's what MS could do  voska | 10/24/03
alraedy done  Suicida| | 10/26/03
Here's what MS could do  voska | 10/24/03
New approach and view of problems  FilledOut | 10/25/03
m$ longhorn will be unix based  stephen732@... | 10/23/03
Yeah! I can't believe nobody's asked MS  j.m.galvin | 10/24/03
"MS signed far fewer contracts with corporate customers than expected" ...  Plain Logic | 10/23/03
THEIR CRAPPY SOFTWARE IS NOW IMPACTING THEIR BOTTOM LINE. SWITCH TO LINUX .  Plain Logic | 10/23/03
Market Forces?  michael-t | 10/23/03
Trashworthy Computing  michael-t | 10/23/03
heee heee heee  JoeMama_z | 10/23/03
Gee Whiz!  dw@... | 10/24/03
NOT Almost Every Current Windows System  KeithRisler | 10/24/03
Actually The Blaster Worm..........  The Real Bitch | 10/27/03
I'm amazed that  j.m.galvin | 10/24/03
Just a guess...  IT_User | 10/24/03
The former monopoly still plays the game  FilledOut | 10/25/03

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