Amen, Brother! I believe you are touching on another important reason that we don't have serious viruses--yet. Linux is a community as much as an operating system. In general, creative people are too busy being productive to be destructive. Second, bad news travels fast. If I somehow got infected by an ingenious virus, my first though would be to post the news here, Freshmeat, newsgroups, etc. I'm very aware of what I install, and where I got it from. Linux folks take responsibility for their stuff, and you can bet the admin of the site where I got the virus would be feeling very stupid, and looking very hard to find out where THEY got it from. Linux folks have friends who have friends who probably run the offender's ISP. We WILL find the virus author,and they WILL NOT be able to hide. We have two responsibilities: 1. To help creative, deviant programmers become creative, productive programmers by welcoming them to Linux and showing them how to contribute. 2. To nail them to the wall when they turn out bad.
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Amen, Brother! I believe you are touching on another important reason that we don't have serious viruses--yet. Linux is a community as much as an operating system. In general, creative people are too busy being productive to be destructive. Second, bad news travels fast. If I somehow got infected by an ingenious virus, my first though would be to post the news here, Freshmeat, newsgroups, etc. I'm very aware of what I install, and where I got it from. Linux folks take responsibility for their stuff, and you can bet the admin of the site where I got the virus would be feeling very stupid, and looking very hard to find out where THEY got it from. Linux folks have friends who have friends who probably run the offender's ISP. We WILL find the virus author,and they WILL NOT be able to hide. We have two responsibilities: 1. To help creative, deviant programmers become creative, productive programmers by welcoming them to Linux and showing them how to contribute. 2. To nail them to the wall when they turn out bad.