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

Jesse Jarzynka denisesballs at thecybersource.com
Wed Nov 2 15:13:03 EST 2005


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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