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Poor programming and poor programmers.
Software producers have convinced everyone it is the nature of software to have security problems. Why has the world bought that scenario?

I still say that software companies need to be held financially accountable for the damages their software causes its users. Microsoft should have to reimburse it users for every penny they pay that is related to security issues.

Every other industry must pay for liability. The software industry should have to be held accountable as well. I really can't believe that some company hasn't sued MS already. I know MS tries to circumvent the issue with its EULA. But there are laws about merchantability and you simply can't negate these laws with EULA's and/or warnings. It is time that MS was taken to court and sued for the financial damages they are responsible for.
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Poor programming and poor programmers.  bjbrock | 01/26/09
Agreed  murph_z ZDNet Moderator | 01/26/09
I don't agree  Roger Ramjet | 01/26/09
Maybe you want to reconsider?  honeymonster | 01/26/09
Sheeple  Roger Ramjet | 01/26/09
Message has been deleted.  David Grober ZDNet Moderator | 01/26/09
I assume this was a test message  murph_z ZDNet Moderator | 01/26/09
Because we all know Solaris on Sparc has no bugs:  ye | 01/26/09
Lots of patches - nearly no failures  murph_z ZDNet Moderator | 01/26/09
Stop confusing "lack of effort" for "unable to do so"  ye | 01/26/09
What are you talking about?  Roger Ramjet | 01/26/09
Because that's why Solaris on Sparc is rarely exploited.  ye | 01/26/09
You realize this was patched before it was exploited  NonZealot | 01/26/09
Not a complete analysis  Roger Ramjet | 01/26/09
There's no proof of your assertion either.  ye | 01/26/09
Only Observations and no interpretations  Roger Ramjet | 01/26/09
@Roger Ramjet: Nothing myopic.  ye | 01/26/09
There IS proof  honeymonster | 01/26/09
You hear this claim all the time  murph_z ZDNet Moderator | 01/26/09
Any support for your assertion?  ye | 01/26/09
So a properly set up Windows box  mdemuth | 01/26/09
Comparing it to an OS that nobody uses . . .  CobraA1 | 01/26/09
You bring up another good point  NonZealot | 01/26/09
Solaris10: 616 vulns; Vista: 82; Server2008: 46; Ubuntu: 1009(!)  honeymonster | 01/26/09
Vulns are meaningless by themselves  murph_z ZDNet Moderator | 01/26/09
Yep - solaris exploits are extremely rare  honeymonster | 01/26/09
Why does ZDNet continue to employ you?  ye | 01/26/09
You can't use Phishing and Linux as an example  daileyml | 01/26/09
One thing you guys never seem to get...  brianmilke@... | 01/26/09
I would suggest the majority of unpatched Windows systems...  ye | 01/26/09
Deleted  honeymonster | 01/26/09
Here's the number of Sun users  tonymcs@... | 01/26/09

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