Wednesday, February 23, 2005

This article appeared in The Economic Times recently as part of a debate about open source software. Some gems from this FUDfest:
Microsoft's own products are tightly integrated and they interoperate with non-Microsoft environments based on open industry standards.
Any sentence that has "Microsoft" and "open industry standards" without the word "not" in between is either a joke or is false. Anyone need a quick hug from Microsoft?
Keeping sensitive information secure is a government priority. Microsoft dedicates security resources for emergency response, product engineering, user-feedback and industry certifications.
Is that why CERT recently advised people to move away from Internet Explorer? Because it was too secure?
...OSS products have more vulnerabilities than Windows, but few of them are backed by a comprehensive, organised security response/testing framework. Platform and data interoperability is very important.
Leaving aside the fact that the first sentence is highly debatable, the next one is a non sequitur.