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Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback David Hallowell, it doesn't matter what the attachment is , if the operating system is being used by ordinary people, kids, old people, etc etc, they can and they will click on the attachment and run an "exe" file by mistake and end up installing...
[January 28, 2004, 2:09]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback Smithy, if the person who wrote the virus that attacked SCO is a Linux loon, then would it follow that the people who collaborated to attack the Debian server are all Microsoft goons?
[January 29, 2004, 7:36]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback It's OPEN SOURCE! Bottom line : Despite constant boasts from the open source/linux crazies about how secure and bullet proof open source is, in practice it doesn't even come close to being secure, having had your very source code getting hacked...
[January 30, 2004, 17:49]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback Jonsaw : " Smithy, if the person who wrote the virus that attacked SCO is a Linux loon, then would it follow that the people who collaborated to attack the Debian server are all Microsoft goons? The second point as I need not remind you is that...
[January 29, 2004, 20:36]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback My debian post was hardly an excuse, it is a fact. I don't refute the 'windows is more popular angle' at all. It is true. Linux servers are actually attacked far more than Windows servers, the majority of the net run Linux web servers and they are...
[January 30, 2004, 4:52]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback I don't care if Debian admitted it or not. And if Debian had not admitted it, those hackers would simply have released that info on the internet. You screaming that something is so, desn't make it so does it?
[January 30, 2004, 6:50]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback Bascule whines: "Scalability - 2003 running on 32 processor 8Gb RAM machines is it? It does it better and it also exists in the current Mars rover.Now that's scalability " As for scalability, show me the figures for even one non-clustered Linux...
[January 30, 2004, 7:04]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback And it shows. Did you read the US Ambassador's letter fully at all? In his June letter, Hamilton said that while the United States doesn't oppose the development of open-source software, it prefers to support a free market where the quality of the...
[January 30, 2004, 11:16]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback It took the great, kind and compassionate America to once again come and save Europe's butt at great expense in lives and money to Americans. Evety single day we hear about yet more vicious anti-semitic attacks against Jews in Europe.We all stil...
[January 30, 2004, 11:36]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback It's common knowledge that if you mention Hitler in a discussion that has nothing to do with WWII, then you've lost the arguement. See ya Smithy.
[March 8, 2005, 16:56]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback And if Debian had not admitted it, those hackers would simply have released that info on the internet' It's OPEN SOURCE! I disagree 2003 smoked, it was close, all who read will see that is so.your assertion bodders on the insane' http://www.zone-h...
[January 30, 2004, 13:08]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback If you make a claim back it up with a link. Who cares if you don't believe it I mean really. Bascule did, the evidence of all his/her claims stands and is clear to see, you have provided one and this was instantly seen in it's true light, a...
[January 31, 2004, 17:52]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback If some corrupt goverment in South America decides to cheat American companies by illegally exluding American companies from goverment contracts, and giving their IT contracts to their pals who are running some two bit Linux outfit, in a pre...
[January 31, 2004, 15:48]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback Veristest is an independent, world class, world recognised IT testing company. I won't even bother to look at them. If Red Hat is certain Linux is strong, let them commision an independent body, like IDG, Dataquest, ZDNET or Veritest to do their...
[January 31, 2004, 15:32]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback One must say that Africa suffers from an absence of good economic strategies that are production related as there are many who see development from the consumption side of the equation and few that see it from the production side.
[January 31, 2004, 10:22]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback I disagree 2003 smoked, it was close, all who read will see that is so. Check these head to heads between Windows 2003 and Red Hatd Linux 8.0 from Veristest the top, world class INDEPENDENT tester at http://www.veritest.com/clients/reports...
[January 30, 2004, 18:08]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback Imagine if you will, that Linux has the market share of Windows today, and its being used by truck, drivers, miners, wrestlers and people who basically don't know or want to know too much about how computers work.
[January 28, 2004, 0:21]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback So what if he's giving away 99% of his money in the future (which I doubt), 1% of $55 billion is still more than enough to live a very comfortable lifestyle. Doing good things from basically money you obtained through unfair business practices does...
[January 28, 2004, 0:07]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback Foreign Office to honour Bill Gates (with a knighthood). Microsoft or Bill Gates. Getting back to Microsoft, I suggest reading Monday's The Times: http://business.timesonline.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,2020-9080-978071,00.html if it is still available...
[January 27, 2004, 22:33]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback Listen, I lived In Britain for 10 years before moving to New York, and if Bill Gates is "not worthy" of a knighthood, then I can think of at least 10 people who were so honored, who had or subsequently committed crimes that would make Bill Gates...
[January 27, 2004, 23:04]
