Article:		An Interview with Tim O'Reilly
Subject:		MSFT: Success=Mistrust?
Date:		2002-12-09 04:25:34
From:		jonogden
Frankly, I expected better of O'Reilly. He displays bias based on paranoia and the typical Unix geeks's jealousy of the MSFT world. If there's no reason to reject Passport except that Microsoft created it, then there's no reason to reject Passport, period. The product is good, or it's not good. If you don't get that, you don't belong in Info Tech, you belong in a cult, preaching to the true believers.

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• MSFT: Success=Mistrust?
  2002-12-12 12:11:43  davidefrank [Reply | View]
  
  
  Hm. Your definition of "good" must be VERY narrow. If it's "good" to ignore the effects of market forces, historic system and network vulnerabilities, and a clearly demonstrated corporate culture of both a stifling level of control and the exclusion of "foreign" applications and OSs, then My .Net is indeed good. Especially if YOU are a True Believer.
  
  MSFT is indeed successful. AND they have indeed earned a degree of cautious mistrust on all our parts. The technological issues are not the ONLY issues.