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 Open source can and does work as you describe. Good point, John. The rights I get out of a maintenance contract depend on negotiation, money's offered, etc. All software companies do not act exactly the same way. But all software companies, open source or otherwise have to control promises or quickly go out of business. One can turn the open source argument on its head though and say that if a company has a sizable user base, that user base can and does often act in concert or small groups to get a BigCo to make changes and that getting someone to keep their promises is the same problem regardless of the software source. There are some informative articles on Customer Relationships Management systems that take up this problem. The problem of IIS is that it is a giveaway and that is harder to get them to change. I suspect MS does not leave security holes open on purpose. len -----Original Message----- From: John Cowan [mailto:jcowan@r...] Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote: > IIS vulnerabilities are MS's problem. That is > exactly why some of us say "MS and IE only": because > we can contractually obligate them to fix them. And some of us say "No MS or IE", because we cannot, in fact, contract with either Microsoft or anyone else to fix them, but are dependent on "sighs and tears". Been there, done that, not going back. IMHO the most important right that a user of Open Source software has stems from the fact that if you have $$$, there are people out there who will make the program do whatever you need. > With > MS, I can point to the service agreement and hold > them to it. You can say they will ignore me, > but they won't, at least, not as long as I am > paying maintenance. The maintenance in question gives you the right to, sheeplike, accept whatever changes *they* want to make, which may have nothing whatever to do with bugs you identify. I'm not singling out Microsoft here: all proprietary software companies act in exactly the same way. 
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