sec roundup

koo koo, now a scoped down sec post...

so recently there was this article about how MS moving into the Linux space w/ Novell was them subverting *nix and OSS, and how we should all scream that the sky is falling and MS is coming to murder our kids while we're being distracted by the sky...

i don't really buy it. imo, it seems to me that *nix and OSS have been so successful that MS adopts a strategy which consists of purchasing new teams of developers who might write better code which leverages code which is already good and not full of tons o legacy bugs and conventions.

this is merely an extension of a phenomenon we all saw w/ the introduction of competition into the browser market back in the day. successful alternate browsers (such as firefox) forced MS to dust off their IE dev team and start making IE updates post-netscape navigator.

MS trying to make better products that customers want isn't going to "hurt" OSS or linux. Ultimately, this move by MS can only be successful if they produce apps which fill the demands being satisfied by major nix and oss projects today: value, quality, performance, etc. this benefits everyone...

and for what it's worth, i was just at a client site last week where they said that Novell ZENworks endpoint security is nifty and full of cool sec bits... oh yea, and it runs on windows too... lol...

oh yea, looks like spammers are attacking anti-spammers yet again... the article ends on an interesting idea of spamware blocking anti-spam measures on the client... that'd be an interesting evolution of the arms race if it hasn't actually happened already.

you know, if they feel they have to jack things up, instead of degrading bit-torrent downloads (which btw 1: can be legitimate and 2: i actually want) maybe our ISPs could start down the slipperly slope of meddling w/ the internet by degrading things that i _don't_ want, like spam...