____/ The Ghost In The Machine on Friday 21 September 2007 17:55 : \____
> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Mark Kent
> <mark.kent@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote
> on Fri, 21 Sep 2007 15:52:04 +0100
> <kd2ds4-5hu.ln1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>> ____/ [H]omer on Monday 17 September 2007 01:36 : \____
>>>
>>>> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>>>>
>>>>> Tor Anonymity Server Admin Arrested
>>>>
>>>> In what way is this democracy?
>>>>
>>>> They'll be rebuilding the Berlin wall next.
>>>
>>> They want control.
>>>
>>> They want to control every individual PC.
>>>
>>> Linux doesn't work well for them. Neither does anonymity...
>>>
>>> It's becoming a struggle between the Orwellian vision and Free software
>>> Creative Commons|Charitable work like OLPC.
>>>
>>
>> Unfortunately, much of the paranioa about network security is really due
>> to the appalling state of security of Microsoft Windows. Had there not
>> been millions of zombie Windows machines out there being used for DOS
>> attacks, spam relaying, and so on, then the current level of paranioa
>> would never have come to be.
>>
>> Of course, Microsoft don't care about that, they just want the cash.
>>
>
> It gets worse. Wanna bet that Linux might be actively, if
> quietly, resisted by all of the antimalware providers? :-)
>
> Windows: where everyone wins. (Except the end consumer.)
The OEMs do not win either. Paper-thin margins...
OEMs would be better off with Linux because the cost of PCs can drop... not
because of hardware constraints, but also because software is no longer an
expense (the OEMs never earned money from it anyway). As for the forced
upgrade/Broken Window economy aspect, that might actually harm OEMs, but not
the environment.
--
~~ Best of wishes
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