webdevsf - 1:24 pm on Jul 14, 2004 (gmt 0)

webdevsf, can't find that quote anywhere after a half hour of trying. Maybe it was in video? It was way back during IE 3 or 4 and one of the huge first holes was found in IE. A reporter asked him if it should be recalled because it was defective, and he gave something similar to an answer.

I found a similar quote, in the same article that has a totally different meaning, in the article you quoted, where he's not even talking about security.

When Ford sells a car a dealer isn't allowed to take out the engine and put a different one in. When a newstand sells the Washington Post no one can go to the newsstand and pay them to rip out the classified section and put their own classified section in - if they could they would do so. The basic right to define a product and test it (we have more testers than developers) on Windows and allow it to get to consumer unadulterated is clearly the law of the country. There is no law of castrated products. Our license is for the whole product.

[washingtonpost.com...]

If this was indeed what you were "quoting", you not only took it out of context to inspire your argument, but you changed the whole quote around to support your argument.

But i suppose its all fair when we are talking about MSFT, because they are fundamentally evil and if he didn't say it, then he probably was thinking it, right?