Re: Linux Banned At My School
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:09:40 +0000, Unruh wrote:
I soounded to me like his uni was worried about Linux being the source of
viruses etc which would infect the resto fo the windows machines. This is
probably based on the idea that hackers tend to use Linux (beeeing so much
more configurable, etc) to develope viruses. Thus LInux is bad. Ie, an
incoherent worry that maybe the student, being a linux user is really a
hacker/craker and will be a danger to the net, and that Linux is
dangerous.
Calling a hacker a cracker is worse than calling a gnu/linux system linux.
.
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