The Linux community doesn't want to be seen as ambulance chasers. Companies that don't follow etiquette rules in security lose share.

Gartner believes these factors will converge by the end of 2007.

Clipper was a heavy-handed way of forcing a particular design into things, and the reason Clipper failed is the same reasons that this will fail. Users lose out if cryptography is weakened or ineffective or much harder to use.

In this case, the person who is sending out the information is the one that's responsible.

If you're afraid of 'back doors,' you better be testing all your software.

If Microsoft's security products are easier to use, we think consumers will be very happy to buy from Microsoft.

That's a killer piece of plumbing that's built into Windows that does give Microsoft a huge advantage.

the benefit back to them does not exceed the risk they perceive in making that information available.

They're going to lose market share, that's a given. But I bet they'll still be the market-share leader. They have that brand name, and so far have made acquisitions and aggressive schedules to stay ahead. But they have to execute.

Back then, it was more a reaction to all these worms and viruses that would hit Windows, and Microsoft would get yelled at. Symantec's stock price would go up every time there was a virus.