Re: [SLE] Not So Fast: Linux on the Desktop

From: John Andersen (jsa_at_pen.homeip.net)
Date: 06/13/04

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Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2004 12:15:41 -0800

    On Sunday 13 June 2004 05:45, Hans du Plooy wrote:
    > We're lucky in linux.  The numbers are on our side.  If linux was on 90% of
    > the world's desktops, we had all better do our updates and run a firewall -
    > there would be a lot more guys out there trying to make trouble for us.  
    > Granted, it would be harder, but not impossible.

    This is the old Market Share argument used to explain why windows
    is such a security sieve.

    That argument has been throughly debunked in many places on the net
    and I won't repeat them here. Its part of the Microsoft FUD checklist
    and it appears you've swollowed it hook line and sinker.

    And how DARE you call Norway a
      "technologically retarded third world country " !!!

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