Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 7th Oct 2005 18:58 UTC
Peter Watson, chief security advisor at Microsoft Australia and New Zealand, said that the software maker did not get any pleasure from seeing Firefox suffer a string of security vulnerabilities, despite the open-source browser's growth seemingly being stunted over recent months. "I don't think it creates any benefit for us or anybody in the ecosystem to turn around and say, 'it's good that this company has a whole load of security vulnerabilities'," said Watson.
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2005-07-18
Peter Watson is a security man...and as such, I'm sure he can appreciate the challenges/hassles of security-related issues. I'm not surprised that he doesn't take joy in any firefox woes.
...but microsoft is *much* bigger than one person in one department.
Microsoft's entire marketing department, for example, is probably baking cakes and pies over anything negative that happens w/ firefox.... it's their only serious/significant competition (aside from *maybe* Opera)... and anything that can help them keep their #'s... is good news.