WineHQ: Point to CRN's recent article
Francois Gouget
fgouget at free.fr
Wed Oct 1 06:23:32 CDT 2003
TechWeb recently published an article titled:
Study Questions Whether Reliance On Microsoft Software Raises
Security Concerns
Which was also republished in CRN with the clearer (but more
sensationalistic) title:
Experts: Reliance On Microsoft A Danger To National Security
That article, and especially the report, 'CyberInsecurity: The Cost of
Monopoly', confirms what we say in our page on Why Wine is so important
so let's point to it.
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Point to TechWeb's article 'Study Questions Whether Reliance On
Microsoft Software Raises Security Concerns'
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Francois Gouget fgouget at free.fr http://fgouget.free.fr/
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It is only a matter of time before a more <a
href="http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~nweaver/warhol.html">virulent worm</a>
appears. The
-only way to decrease its impact is to diversify the OS population.
+only way to decrease its impact is to diversify the OS population. This
+issue is now considered serious enough that security analysts are calling
+our reliance on Microsoft Windows a
+<a href="http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20030924S0008">threat to national security</a>.
+<p>
Because it is an alternate implementation of the Win32 API and runs on
top of a completely different OS, Wine does not have the same flaws and
thus can provide this needed diversity.
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