"Imhotep" <Imhotep@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> Jason wrote:
>
> > * Imhotep <Imhotep@nospam.com>:
> >> It seems that governments are getting involved with Lunix...
> >>
> >> http://lwn.net/Articles/147174/
> >>
> >> Im
> >
> > Which my govt would do that. Would be a heck of a lot more fun then
> > fixing xp boxs all damn day.
> >
> > Jason
>
> ...I am also sick of the spyware trap...just not fun anymore.

(Cough) Spyware is written for the platform that most people are using.
Which happens to be Windows.

If there is ever that big shift to Linux (due in 1996, if memory serves),
then it'll get written for Linux. And /please/ don't try to convince me that
it's somehow magically immune from bugs - there's *always* one more bug.

According to the analysts, it's split 50-50 between security-by-obscurity
and security-by-peer-review (which, judging by my experience, is something
more talked about than performed). Mind you, these are probably the same
analysts that predicted a dominant Linux desktop, and missed the fact that
it's likely to be the dominant mainframe OS in a decade or so ;o)

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Hairy One Kenobi

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reflect the opinions of the highly-opinionated person expressing the opinion
in the first place. So there!