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Instead of Throwing Everyone In Jail, Fix Your Lousy Products

Posted by tuxchick on · 3 comments
Linux Today Blog; By Carla Schroder 		Mail this story
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Have any of them-- has one single vendor, whether it's Symantec or Trend or McAfee or F-Secure or anyone-- ever said "Quit throwing your money down a rathole-- stop using Windows, or at least don't put it on the Internet"? Wouldn't that little tidbit of honesty be refreshing? But no, they'll never do that. If the same conditions existed in, say, the small home appliances industry people would be getting electrocuted by their toasters and hair dryers every day, and the manufacturers would advise them to learn correct handling of live wires, and a thriving industry of insulated safety garments would prey on the survivors.

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Comments (3)

jdixon ·
> While law enforcement does need to join the new millennium and have a role in investigating and prosecuting cybercrime, it's only useful after a crime has been committed. When anyone talks about involving law enforcement in prevention, it almost always means eroding more of our liberties and invading our private lives even more.

Careful, TC. Keep going in that direction and you'll start sounding like me or Bob. :)
ColonelPanik ·
usOFa has 5% of world population usOFa has 25% of world prison population.

"Lemon-Law" for software?

When Linux get broken, it gets fixed, for free, quickly! Linux wins.

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