Microsoft Uses Trademark Law to Disrupt Trickbot Botnet

Re:Microsoft Uses Trademark Law to Disrupt Trickbot Botnet by hansvm on Monday October 12, 2020 @11:42AM (#24755570)

No, just that they need to be willing to accept the consequences of their mistakes rather than blame third parties. If software development is inherently risky then that's still the responsibility of software developers. If that makes some businesses unviable then the system is working as intended because they were unviable anyway, just profiting by passing costs to other people.

There's a separate sentiment floating around (and that _was_ the tone I caught from the parent comment, though I could be mistaken) that portions of Microsoft produce software with major design flaws that create a horde of other security and performance problems and that they should do better, but actually making better software isn't a necessary step in holding software creators accountable.

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Re:Microsoft Uses Trademark Law to Disrupt Trickbot Botnet by moron4hire on Monday October 12, 2020 @11:58AM (#24755780)

It seems like, if Microsoft were trying to absolve themselves of responsibility for defects in their products, the thing to do would be to claim that malware is developed by third parties outside of their control, against the terms of the EULA. What Microsoft is actually doing seems a lot more like taking responsibility. They're cleaning up the mess and helping people when they don't really have a legal requirement to do so.

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