"Why anyone would still be using MS-Windows at their business is beyond me"
A combination of a number of factors:
1) billions of dollard of M$ marketing efforts
2) an erroneous perception of Mac as the sole alternative (which, of course, it ain't at all)
3) the fact that GNU/Linux and other *nixes are the product of a COMMUNITY rather than of CORPORATIONS and hence have little or no marketing budgets.
4) the fact that GNU/Linux has become user-friendly only rather recently (sorry guys, but that's a fact)
5) the force of habit (and denial!)
"By perpetuating the myth that it's OK to connect a MS-Windows machine to a network, billions of dollars of damage are caused"
yep - you are right about that. But sadly, this is the *only* thing which will wake up M$ zombies. And the current virus is not all that nasty. It's like California: the "big one" will inevitably come, and only *then* will they take a long hard look at these issues...
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Posted by: rtsy on January 28, 2004 01:53 AMA combination of a number of factors:
1) billions of dollard of M$ marketing efforts
2) an erroneous perception of Mac as the sole alternative (which, of course, it ain't at all)
3) the fact that GNU/Linux and other *nixes are the product of a COMMUNITY rather than of CORPORATIONS and hence have little or no marketing budgets.
4) the fact that GNU/Linux has become user-friendly only rather recently (sorry guys, but that's a fact)
5) the force of habit (and denial!)
"By perpetuating the myth that it's OK to connect a MS-Windows machine to a network, billions of dollars of damage are caused"
yep - you are right about that. But sadly, this is the *only* thing which will wake up M$ zombies. And the current virus is not all that nasty. It's like California: the "big one" will inevitably come, and only *then* will they take a long hard look at these issues...
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