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

[Jesse Jarzynka]

Jason Lasker wrote:

>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
>Senior Systems Administrator
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>

Was this referring to me? If so, how is it juvenile to politely ask for 
people to keep their personal gripes to a personal e-mail, and not send 
their problem with other people's postings about Microsoft to everyone's 
e-mail on this LINUX user group?

I'd also be interested in just what you mean by "professional credibility".

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







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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
>>
>> 
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>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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