Re: Interesting quote from Senior Microsoft VP

Sent this as a letter to the Editor/Writer of the article.
John Carr
http://www.whitehouse.org/index.asp
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Matt
I know this was a few months ago, but ..  I wanted to bring a little
clarity to the point that the person you quoted made;

The MS person said;
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Valentine, too, took the opportunity to point out the widespread bugs that
have been discovered in competing operating products such as Linux and
Unix.

"Every operating system out there is about equal in the number of
vulnerabilities reported," he said. "We all suck."

http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/09/05/020905hnmssecure.xml
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I work on an iSeries (aka AS/400,  you know the machine that MS used to run
their business)
I don't believe that we have the same types or number of vulnerability's
that he states.
I think it's an attempt to "Bring down to our level"  everyone else.
Lowest Common Dominator

This is a quote written in Your Mag. (Infoworld) about the iSeries

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As for security, the AS/400e is an object-based system that is inherently
difficult to corrupt via hacker attacks or viruses. In fact, no virus has
ever been reported in the AS/400e arena.

http://www.infoworld.com/articles/ec/xml/00/04/03/000403ectca2.xml
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So I think the MS guy should reevaluate what COULD be the norm.


Respectfully
John Carr