On: Security Breach at US Universities

[swiley]

I'm continually shocked at the popularity of Microsoft software inside organizations like this, especially with its horrible track record.

I guess software is weird that way: the market forces are almost completely inverted which is how companies like Microsoft,Oracle, and IBM keep going.

[hulitu → swiley]

I'm not at all shocked. The popularity of such SW is direct proportional with the bribe money paid to government officials. Remember the trip MS made to Münich ?

[cambalache → hulitu]

That's why I laugh and laugh about people here,reddit or twitter jerking off about how what a wonderful human philanthropist Bill Gates is, as if among the other awful things MS did is not to have created enforced monopolies in almost all third world countries governments by bribing their officials to accept MS products, and funding FUD campaigns against any movement to open source/free software.