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> Seven years before that, in 2002, Bill Gates ... And just four years before that, Bill was being recalcitrant in front of the US government, with utterances
by Jedd 3y ago
> Seven years before that, in 2002, Bill Gates ...
And just four years before that, Bill was being recalcitrant in front of the US government, with utterances like:
'I don’t know what you mean “concerned.”'
It's possible that the whole organisation had a resilient change of attitude in 2002, but as sibling comment by Andrex
observes, there's no evidence to suggest this.
For example - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37702095 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37702095 'Everything authenticated by Microsoft is tainted' from 2023-09
- wolverine876 3y ago> just four years before that, Bill was being recalcitrant in front of the US government I don't see what that has to do with security. Microsoft could be both monopolistic and security-focused.
- Jedd 3y agoI'm suggesting that if Bill sends an internal-to-Microsoft email that says 'we're now 100% focused on security and will be forever', that this may not be a position statement we could 100% rely on to accurately describe the subsequent twenty+ years. Nor, obviously, should we assume that email represented a sincere, persistent, commitment to fundamental change of the way the company operates -- conversely, that there were no cynical elements of propaganda / marketing to that action.