Re: Linux could have saved the life of a 19 year old girl

From: Nigel Feltham (nigel.feltham_at_btinternet.com)
Date: 11/24/05 

Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 18:48:05 +0000

alex.gman@gmail.com wrote:

> As CNN reported recently, a 19 year old girl killed herself after
> finding a newsgroup called alt.suicide.holiday, and learning from the
> regulars how to procure KCN and basically getting a moral approval to
> commit suicide.
>
> http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/11/04/suicide.internet/
>
> I keep thinking that if Linux was the only OS on the market, Suzie
> would still be alive. She probably never would have figured out how to
> configure and compile the kernel to support her USB modem. Should Bill
> Gates be held indirectly responsible in Suzie's untimely death? Is
> giving easy-to-use operating systems to emotionally unstable teenagers
> as dangerous as giving out shotguns to school kids after classes?

More likely that using linux would have stopped the constant malware and
other crap that are enough to push the sanest of windows users over the
edge.

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