Re: [PLUG] OT: SolarWinds

[Fred Stluka via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>]

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On 12/26/20 12:28 PM, K.S. Bhaskar via plug wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 26, 2020 at 8:01 AM Rich Freeman via plug 
> <plug@lists.phillylinux.org <mailto:plug@lists.phillylinux.org>> wrote:
>
>     On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 7:56 AM Rich Kulawiec via plug
>     <plug@lists.phillylinux.org <mailto:plug@lists.phillylinux.org>>
>     wrote:
>     >
>     > Nearly four hundred million dollars in revenue in just nine
>     months and
>     > they were unwilling to drop a few hundred thousand on mail
>     infrastructure
>     > and administrators.  No, instead they saved the money and cheerfully
>     > indulged in what is well-known to be a worst practice.
>     >
>
>     Only on an FOSS mailing list will you hear somebody just toss out that
>     using Office365 is "well-known" to be a worst practice.
>
>
> [KSB] True, that. But in their 40 year history, Microsoft does leave 
> behind it a trail of misleading statements (especially about 
> security), misrepresentation of facts, procrastination and lack of 
> timeliness of fixes, different versions of facts, etc. I'm reminded of 
> “The Blind Men and the Elephant” 
> (https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_poems_of_John_Godfrey_Saxe/The_Blind_Men_and_the_Elephant 
> <https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_poems_of_John_Godfrey_Saxe/The_Blind_Men_and_the_Elephant>). 
> While one may (or may not) say flat out that they lie, they clearly 
> show different groups of people (users, the press, investors, 
> developers, etc.) restricted and slightly different parts of the 
> elephant so that some conclude that it's like a rope, another that 
> it's like a rope, etc.
>
> In FOSS is there nowhere to hide. Your code may be crap, but at least 
> people who use it can use it knowing that it's crap.
>
> Regards
> – Bhaskar
>
>
>     -- 
>     Rich
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