Headlines - EU commissioner gunning for MS Office

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Competition Commissioner escalates her apparent crusade against Microsoft by backing open standards.

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[Phillikon]

Remember these are the same people who believe their own hype about Videogame nasties.

I have been an IT and infrastructure engineer for over 20 years, and although open standards has its merits (it’s virtually free) it is the most unsafe software available.

Don’t believe all these idiots who try to prove how bad MS software is because it is always getting hacked.

It is always getting hacked because the hackers are all from the, I want something for nothing brigade who's only aim in life is to destroy Microsoft.

Open source software is only safe because nobody at the moment is out to prove a point with it.

But by it sheer nature open source is a security accident waiting to happen, how can something that has its underlying code available anywhere you look be safe?

It can't, so for once in its pitiful existence Europe should stop its crusade against anything American and get real.

[TheAnimus]

One of the biggest bug bears of mine is that open source is somehow safer because its source code is available to be viewed by others.

The strange thing is, i know NOT ONE low level developer who thinks this way.

There are many who say its piss easy to see an un-checked buffer overflow, but guess what the compilers warn for this, and its also easy to detect in compiled code. A lot of the more modern bugs are very complex, requireing a large number of often seamingly disconnected events to happen.

But on topic, standardising office formats is all well and good, as long as it dosen't standardise the feature set, innovation should still be the big driving factor.

[directhex]

note: openoffice does not have a 100% compliant ODF implementation