“The open-source community has reacted with anger to last week’s
claims from Microsoft representatives that open source software was
too insecure for it take seriously. “
“British Linux developer Jason Clifford has led the backlash
against Microsoft’s claims, viewing them as a cynical marketing
ploy. “At the end of the day Microsoft is in the business of
selling a product,” he says. “Everyone is entitled to do that, but
perhaps it would be better to do it on the merits of that product
rather than tying to put something else down.”
“Microsoft group product manager Aubrey Edwards last week
suggested the security of a bank is comparable to that of an
operating system and claimed that no bank would make it’s security
architecture common knowledge.”