“Our customers do not want us to sell them products with over 63,000 potential known defects.”
Microsoft team leader Marc Lucovsky, on the new value-for-money proposition offered by Windows 2000, ZDNN, 11 February 2000
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WE OFFER DENIAL-OF-SERVICE ATTACKS, TOO!
“It’s basically the same attack as the ones that hit all the other Web sites.”
Excite@Home spokesperson Kelly DiStefano, on the latest feature her company’s portal copied from Yahoo, Washtech.com, 10 February 2000
TRAGEDY OF THE DOT-COMMONS
“Security on the Internet is a community effort.”
FBI infotech security chief Ron Dick, on the furious finger-pointing that’s being done to resolve recent Net traffic attacks, News.com, 9 February 2000
NO SHIRTS, NO SHOES, NO SERVICE
“We went from the initial shock of wondering whether it was our problem to the huge disappointment of realizing that we were marked by hackers.”
Yahoo president Jeff Mallett, explaining his coworkers’ disappointment in finding out that they weren’t paranoid, but rather, someone really was out to get them through a denial-of-service attack, Forbes, 8 February 2000
SOME OF THEM WANT TO GET USED BY YOU
“People want to take advantage of Linux as soon as they can. We can facilitate doing that.”
Corel CEO MIchael Cowpland, explaining how a merger of his company with Inprise will allow him to take advantage of people who want to take advantage of Linux, CBS MarketWatch, 7 February 2000
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