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phd_ruJoe Barr (newsforge.com, linux.com) написал на удивление злую статью.
http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/06/06/1832223
"the need to lick Microsoft's boots to play in their ecosystem -- which accounts for a lot of the corruption, lies, deceit, false claims, false viruses, and false alarms which emanate regularly from this false security industry."
"Every year, US-Cert produces huge fireworks in the security trade press with their annual summary of misinformation about security flaws. The idiots in the press repeat the lie verbatim and the lie becomes real. What is the lie? That Unix/Linux is less secure than Windows. Granted, only the stupidest dolts in the universe -- and the trade press -- are going to buy that crap, but they put it out there anyway."
"they refuse to correct it or to comment on it. They also know that it misleads consumers and encourages them to stay on an inferior platform -- one which is infamous for its chronic malware infestations -- rather than switching to Mac OS X or Linux, both of which are more secure by design."
"Kaspersky Lab, a Russian Internet security company which operates around the globe, including here in the USA, has been spreading FUD about malware targeting Linux for years."
"I've been using Linux exclusively on the desktop since 1999, and reading and writing about it for longer than that, and I was completely unaware of _any_ Linux viruses beyond a few lame "proof of concept" samples"
"Why they do it
The answer, of course, is money. Security firms look on more secure alternatives to Windows as a threat to their bottom line. It is in their best interest to slow down the migration of users from Windows to any alternative platform, simply because any alternative platform is going to a better job of providing security than Microsoft has done.
If they can't stop the attrition, and the growth of the Apple and Linux markets are showing that they can't, they can also try to position themselves to be in the new markets, even if they are not as lucrative for them as the Windows culture. So by inventing and/or exaggerating threats to the alternatives, they can slow down their growth and try to establish some cred in them at the same time."
"if you do business with Microsoft on a regular basis, you get used to working in an ethics-free environment, and you begin to practice the same black business arts as the master."
http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/06/06/1832223
"the need to lick Microsoft's boots to play in their ecosystem -- which accounts for a lot of the corruption, lies, deceit, false claims, false viruses, and false alarms which emanate regularly from this false security industry."
"Every year, US-Cert produces huge fireworks in the security trade press with their annual summary of misinformation about security flaws. The idiots in the press repeat the lie verbatim and the lie becomes real. What is the lie? That Unix/Linux is less secure than Windows. Granted, only the stupidest dolts in the universe -- and the trade press -- are going to buy that crap, but they put it out there anyway."
"they refuse to correct it or to comment on it. They also know that it misleads consumers and encourages them to stay on an inferior platform -- one which is infamous for its chronic malware infestations -- rather than switching to Mac OS X or Linux, both of which are more secure by design."
"Kaspersky Lab, a Russian Internet security company which operates around the globe, including here in the USA, has been spreading FUD about malware targeting Linux for years."
"I've been using Linux exclusively on the desktop since 1999, and reading and writing about it for longer than that, and I was completely unaware of _any_ Linux viruses beyond a few lame "proof of concept" samples"
"Why they do it
The answer, of course, is money. Security firms look on more secure alternatives to Windows as a threat to their bottom line. It is in their best interest to slow down the migration of users from Windows to any alternative platform, simply because any alternative platform is going to a better job of providing security than Microsoft has done.
If they can't stop the attrition, and the growth of the Apple and Linux markets are showing that they can't, they can also try to position themselves to be in the new markets, even if they are not as lucrative for them as the Windows culture. So by inventing and/or exaggerating threats to the alternatives, they can slow down their growth and try to establish some cred in them at the same time."
"if you do business with Microsoft on a regular basis, you get used to working in an ethics-free environment, and you begin to practice the same black business arts as the master."
