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> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
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>>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>>>> EU Says Governments Could Bar Microsoft From Bidding
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>>>> | Governments contracting IT work could conclude that Microsoft's
>>>> | antitrust history constitutes "grave professional misconduct" and ban
>>>> | the company, according to the European Commission.
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>>>> http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/147175
>>> eu_says_governments_could_bar_microsoft_from_bidding.html
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>>>
>>> There is a legitimate legal reasons to ban Micoshaft.
>>>
>>> There are now more viruses, malware, sypware, botnetware
>>> and trojans being released than all of the Micoshaft engineers
>>> and Micoshaft together can repair PER DAY.
>>>
>>> Tax payers are being taken for a ride if their OS maker
>>> has no fix or even a remote possibility of fixing the flaws.
>>> There are 320 million botnet PCs.
>>>
>>> If staff within governments took to recommending WINDUMMY OSen
>>> for projects, they could legitimately be sued for professional
>>> misconduct by open source friendly companies
>>> because officials have a duty in public life to obtain
>>> the best products for IT and recommending something that is
>>> broken and CANNOT be repaired such as the WINDUMMY OSen
>>> is failure to perform duty.
>>> If the environment for software has changed, then best
>>> practices within government must also get revised accordingly.
>>
>> A colleague of mine had her bank account breached and money stolen
>> yesterday. Probably her machine too was a zombie... not only would she need
>> to deal with the nuisance or loss, but the costs of it are /shared/ among
>> all bank customers.
>
> This is what many thieves kind of gloss over... they have the view that
> "people are insured" so it's okay to steel their stuff. Of course, the
> cost is merely then spread over everyone, so we all get to subsidise the
> thieves.
>
>>
>> People are too shy to ban what they come to equate with a 'computer'.
>>
>
> Banks would be well advised to start sending out LiveCDs or AsusEEEs or
> similar for people to do online banking with. The internet, when
> accessed from Windows, is just not sufficiently secure.
A Canadian bank recently began giving Linux laptops to those opening an account
there.
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