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>I see no point in govt agencies requiring windows licenses when most of the work can be done through the Office suite in a web browser. The point is there's s
by na85 4y ago
>I see no point in govt agencies requiring windows licenses when most of the work can be done through the Office suite in a web browser.
The point is there's someone to sue when things go wrong. I'm not being facetious.
If government runs Gentoo and it turns out there's a decades-old bug in polkit that gets chained with an 0day that results in everyone's social security numbers getting leaked, who's responsible?
If that happens with Microsoft they can in theory sue, and more importantly they can blame Microsoft in the media.
- josephcsible 4y agoThere are critical security vulnerabilities in Microsoft products all the time. When was the last time Microsoft lost a lawsuit over one?