Full Disclosure: Re: Windows 7 UAC compromised

["M.B.Jr." <marcio.barbado () gmail com>]

Comments below.


On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 6:58 PM, Kevin Wilcox <kevin () tux appstate edu> wrote:
> 2009/2/5 Miller Grey <vigilantgregorius () gmail com>:
> > No, it doesn't make sense...I don't think Redmond missed the point at all,
> > they're trying to introduce a concept totally new to the everyday user who,
> > like Valdis said, only "...wants his dancing hamster screensaver.", and will
> > blindly click any OK button that pops up.  Ultimately, Valdis is right,
> > Redmond cares about profit, and creating an OS that is irritating to the
> > everyday jackass does not help their profits.
> Wait, so is he right when he said all they care about is profit, was
> he right when he said they intentionally missed it or both?


No, he isn't. But they're an enterprise, and they like money more than
good code. The Marxist product-based profit posture enforced in the
referred software vendor is a curse through which organizations let
quality go for the mere financial benefit of some banking accounts.
Agile methodologies and its horrible "extremme programming" (XP)
premises constitute a few examples.






-- 
Marcio Barbado, Jr.

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