Microsoft now says "It Loves Open Source"

[dibl]

Re: Microsoft now says "It Loves Open Source"

@Dibl
Interesting test there.

Thanks Moon -- I thought it showed reasonable imagination.

[GreyGeek]

Re: Microsoft now says "It Loves Open Source"

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I took a clean new Win XP VM (backed up, of course, but not even updated), and launched Internet Explorer, and googled for a random porn site. I browsed to the first one that came up, and started clicking every link I saw. That Win XP VM lasted about 2.5 minutes, before it was absolutely locked up with malware
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I read several years ago I read about an experiment in which a freshly installed XP was connected to the Internet and allowed to just idle. No browsing, no user activity, except for monitoring software. It took 4 minutes for XP to get owned in a 2008 test.

Because of that read when ever I set up an XP I'd have a USB stick or CD with AVG, spybot and other tools on it so that I could install them BEFORE I connected to the Internet and validated the installation with Microsoft. Now, the only time I set up XP is in a VM. I delete shortcuts to IE and install FireFox. As a guest OS it is protected by my Linux firewall.

Oh, I also never visit porn sites! That's just asking for it.

[blobfish]

Re: Microsoft now says "It Loves Open Source"

If it is a team of MCSEs with no Linux experience and they bring in an off the shelf appliance VM (sendmail for example) it may make more sense to run it under a Hyper-V VM.

It would make sense if microsoft hadn't proven over and over again that it can't be trusted when collaborating with competing technologies. I feel some kind of analogy of a battered wife syndrome. Linus should just reject the patch and tell people linux won't run under windows virtual machine, other than say it will and let microsoft cause havoc and convince people that linux doesn't work. It is a war and don't let them convince you it is not. Microsoft is always at war.

[zlow]

Re: Microsoft now says "It Loves Open Source"

If it is a team of MCSEs with no Linux experience and they bring in an off the shelf appliance VM (sendmail for example) it may make more sense to run it under a Hyper-V VM.

It would make sense if microsoft hadn't proven over and over again that it can't be trusted when collaborating with competing technologies. I feel some kind of analogy of a battered wife syndrome. Linus should just reject the patch and tell people linux won't run under windows virtual machine, other than say it will and let microsoft cause havoc and convince people that linux doesn't work. It is a war and don't let them convince you it is not. Microsoft is always at war.

It's a good thing that Linus is a little more mature than that. Doing what you recommend would make the Linux community no better than Microsoft.

[blobfish]

Re: Microsoft now says "It Loves Open Source"

It is not about maturity (nice bait though), it is about recognizing a pattern of behavior. Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me.

[zlow]

Re: Microsoft now says "It Loves Open Source"

It is not about maturity (nice bait though), it is about recognizing a pattern of behavior. Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me.

I wasn't baiting you, it absolutely is about maturity.