[Gllug] Controversial Joel Spolsky article

[Ian Norton]

On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 10:29:39AM +0000, Christopher Hunter wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 Dec 2003 12:12 am, Bernard Peek wrote:
> 
> > The worms spread because most Windows systems aren't properly patched
> > because up until now users haven't needed to. Now that the worms have
> > drawn their attention to this lapse a lot of them will hook up to
> > Microsoft's automated patch delivery service.
> 
> ...which dosn't usually work very well, often claiming that the "Operating 
> System" serial number is wrong, and spuriously warning that it is probably 
> pirated.  Also, there's no reliable and accurate way of knowing that their 
> patches are uncorrupted.  Often, their "security patches" break more than 
> they fix!

To break linux you have to work at it. To break windows you have to work with
it.

Hooking the vast army of unpatched windows boxen up to the net permanantly kind
of feels like some sort of prep for DRM everything where everytime you play
your startup sound you pay ms a royalty, and eventually get to the point
where a windows home computer will become little more than an overpowered
remote desktop client with a retinal scanner.

Ian  
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