OT: Here we go again ...

[Joel Hammer]

It would be easy just to unload your MS stock. Apple, for example,
rose about 50% in the last several months. MS has been a laggard, and
promises to remain so. It is just too big to keep on growing.

Joel

On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 08:16:17AM -0400, dep wrote:
> quoth Matthew Carpenter:
> | They haven't drawn the conclusion that the initial outage was caused
> | by it, but there are reports (computerworld I believe) that MSBlast
> | was responsible for clogging the network pipe between power stations
> | used to avoid the cascading effect.  The cascade-avoidance system
> | simply couldn't do it's job...
> |
> | I agree that it probably STARTED there as well...
> 
> and ultimately it's gonna come down something like this: a crack of a 
> major hospital or nuke plant is going to kill many or seriously 
> endanger millions. it will be due to microsoft software. there will be 
> an outraged response. what will the effect be?
> 
> controls in the internet, probably. what it *won't* be is serious action 
> against microsoft, even though their stuff is not only demonstrably 
> dangerous but widely known to be dangerous. (the obvious corrective 
> action, of course, would be to ban permanent connection to the internet 
> of any machine running microsoftware.) there is no one to whom this is 
> a mystery. yet such action as has been taken against microsoft on any 
> point has been very weak. why? because the effects of a microsoft 
> collapse would certainly be vast and severe -- far worse than the 
> combined costs of all the attacks so far. microsoft is a very widely 
> held security. those of us who have company stock-based retirement 
> plans, 401ks, or any of a variety of mutual funds own microsoft stock. 
> it really is a big player economically.
> 
> so dealing with the microsoft problem *must* include some way of dealing 
> with the substantial financial problem that handling the software 
> problem would entail. it's easy to say "screw 'em," but that aintagonna 
> happen. it's a real mess.
> -- 
> dep
> 
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