Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 7th Oct 2005 18:58 UTC
Mozilla & Gecko clones 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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Who would Benefit here?
by on Mon 10th Oct 2005 04:34 UTC

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"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."

MS would, by attempting to mabipulate people in sticking with their browser.

NOTE TO ALL THAT MIGHT BELIEVE THIS KIND OF FUD:

All the slander and marketing tactics in the world won't be able to buy IE the security it needs.

get real security here: http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/