http://trends.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/07/15/1331229&from=rss
I find I am more likely to believe a review from newsforge than I am from McAfee. Make up your own mind. This is from the review that is linked to above.
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If you are a typical Windows user, un- or ill-informed about what free software and open source are all about, you’ll probably lap up Sage because its deceptions go right over your head and it allows you to feel warm and fuzzy about using proprietary software like Windows and McAfee products instead of that evil open source, or even the hybrid evil of Mac OS X. I’m sure the Windows trade press and Microsoft’s public relations folks will like it, too. Watch for selective quotes from Sage appearing on Microsoft.com or in Microsoft ads in the near future.
But if you are knowledgeable about open source software, or the debate over full-disclosure in the world of computer security, you’ll find Sage one-sided and lacking in substance. Open source is the least of Microsoft’s security problems. McAfee’s business model depends upon that teeming cesspool of insecurity, however, so it shies away from the real issues and fundamental causes. McAfee wants to address those issues in the same way the pharmaceutical firms want to see the threat of AIDS disappear.
In this first issue, Sage goes beyond simple disingenuousness and attempts to frame open source as the fall guy for all the ills wrought by malware. Glib? Certainly. Superficial? Beyond question. Sage? No.
