Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 11:06:47 +0100 From: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com> To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com>, "Andrew C. Hornback" <achornback@worldnet.att.net>, "Mike Meyer" <mwm@mired.org> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Feeding the Troll (Was: freebsd as a desktop ?) Message-ID: <03ea01c17986$b9dd6f40$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <001701c17985$89206f20$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>
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Ted writes: > It does the job that Microsoft thinks you want > done nicely. Microsoft is right, for the most part. > It doesen't do the job that _needs_ to be done > nicely, nor is it easy to modify it to do so. See above. > Your not looking for it. I looked for precise figures on software piracy. > This is because Windows is so inflexible and > limited that Microsoft had to graft all the terminal > services onto it to be able to support this > kind of thing. No, it's because you are using the wrong tool for the wrong job. Windows is not a timesharing system, Microsoft's rather lame attempts at making it work in that capacity notwithstanding. > It's those kinds of bandaids are where you lose > money by spending it on time. Your example is very atypical, however. Nobody asserts that Windows is a better server or timesharing host. > Getting from where Microsoft wants them to > be to where the user wants Microsoft to be > is very hard. The success of Microsoft is evidence of the contrary. You seem to have a very strong emotional investment in resentment of Microsoft. On that path lies danger. > But then you lose all that savings when Code Red > or Nimba come around, because the idiot that set > up the Windows webserver didn't know enough to lock > it down. You may not even notice the infection, and it's easy enough to fix, so loss is minimal. On a UNIX system, an idiot might have sendmail silently assisting spammers, too. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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