[nflug] Another reason to not use M$ products...

[Jason Lasker]

Mark
	Your comments are right on the money.  The responses to this issue
are juvenile, especially the one below.  This type of commentary speaks to
the professional credibility of the authors, although from past postings I
am not surprised.


"Just the facts ma'am"


Jason Lasker
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-----Original Message-----
From: nflug-bounces at nflug.org [mailto:nflug-bounces at nflug.org] On Behalf Of
Jesse Jarzynka
Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 3:13 PM
To: nflug at nflug.org
Subject: Re: [nflug] Another reason to not use M$ products...

Mark Musone wrote:

>I hate to be a devils advocate, but how is this a "Microsoft is horrible"
>issue??
>
>this is a _software application_ issue. in fact, a SONY issue.
>Where does Microsoft come into this mix to a point of "Thank God for linux"
>??
>
>Because a software company decided to write some not-so-nice software 
>for a particular operating system, suddenly it's the operating systems
fault??
>
>What if Sony wrote this same software for Linux, should we all be 
>bashing Linux and praising Microsoft because of a vendors choice of 
>supported operating system??
>
>Is it because this is yet another security issue with Windows? if 
>that's the case then look at it this way, the very name of this event: 
>Sony _ROOTKIT_ has it's very definition based on _unix_, not windows. 
>rootkits are generally identified as a Unix/Linux thing. So, someone 
>saying "Oh, bad Microsoft for letting people write a Windows Rootkit" is
just ludicrous.
>Linux/Unix ABOUNDS in rootkits.
>
>If this is a "see, Windows doesn't let you play cd's..." argument, then 
>that is also ludicrous, because this same CD won't work under Linux
either!!!
>
>I'm sorry for going off, but sometimes people need to get a fundamental 
>understanding of issues, and not react to the slightest trigger of 
>anything having the word Microsoft in it. This is the line that Zealots 
>cross which instantly make their arguments not credible.
>
>-Mark
>
>  
>
And maybe a response like this is better suited for a personal e-mail
instead of to a Linux mailing list. I certainly could do without this
clogging my inbox.

--
Jesse Jarzynka
Cyber Source
http://www.jessejoe.com/
http://www.thecybersource.com/
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