On Monday, May 23, 2005 2:40 PM sherlock@vsnl.com wrote:
Man do you live on Europa (yeah it's habitable). M$ spends cold hard cash funding shills (why dont u try for some) to write fud and case studies to malign GNU/Linux. Some idiots are even convinced to not uninstall M$ crap after reading those. And a few find the time to ACTUALLY defend the pile. HA Ha ha. You made my day.
I am not saying that we shall not try linux. The case in point is that "may be" one fine day you get up and see that your LINUX Web Server has crashed because of some virii. Any system left open ( by open it doesn't mean Open source. I mean open to attacks, insecure) can be compromised. Be it WINDOZE or LINUX !!!. You may be a big programmer!!!. But I am not.
Who the hell will my friendly neighbourhood buddy go to incase his LINUX system is compromised when he doesn't know what is a "VARIABLE" what is an "ALIAS" or more so when he doesn't want to know or doesn't have time to know.
That should be fee for all. Windoze haters crashing windows ?. the crap fails to install on my chinese laptop with american cpu and korean ram and singapore hd and indian carrybag. The crashing happens later. But on my desktop I am in awe of windows parapsccho capabilities - my mere prescence makes it crash. Linux fails miserable to shut itself off in the prescence of linux haters. Once more i humbly admit that this feature is absent in GNU/Linux.
You can run from it but you cannot hide from it. However we or rather you would like to put it thru. Windoze can be used by the idiot sitting next to us but linux needs me to be around for help. Like it or not. I am not encouraging WINDOZE or M$.
Who knows what the future holds for us. First there was Tuberculosis, then there was Cancer and now HIV/AIDS. Yesterday was WINDOWS/M$ today it is half WINDOWS/M$ and half LINUX. Tomorrow may be LINUX/who knows may be some money s&^king $$$company$$$ using and deploying LINUX. And the day-after may be something other.
History has a habit of repeating itself. Who knows what is going to happen tomorrow any way !!!.
regards,
rc