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. Changelog: * templates/en/why.template Point to TechWeb's article 'Study Questions Whether Reliance On Microsoft Software Raises Security Concerns' -- Francois Gouget fgouget@free.fr http://fgouget.free.fr/ La terre est une bêta...
Index: templates/en/why.template =================================================================== RCS file: /home/cvs/lostwages/templates/en/why.template,v retrieving revision 1.3 diff -u -r1.3 why.template --- templates/en/why.template 18 Jun 2003 14:37:57 -0000 1.3 +++ templates/en/why.template 1 Oct 2003 11:11:34 -0000 @@ -79,7 +79,11 @@ 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.
