After reading 73 messages on this topic (I browse at +2), I've come to the conclusion that if there are total morons in the corporate environment (I know, I am a network admin), there must be an equal proportion of hardcore Linux supporters who are totally ignorant.
Four days after the outbreak of ILOVEYOU and DETAILED explanations of how ILOVEYOU is a.vbs script and does NOT autorun in Outlook, posted all over the/. threads that discuss ILOVEYOU, you STILL have idiots who (presumably) read this board and who continue to spread the uninformed opinions that:
1. It autoruns in Outlook, or Outlook Express. 2. It's a security hole in the Windows OS. 3. It's a bug in Outlook.
This ISN'T the case, and if you were a regular/. reader, you'd already know about this from the many informative posts fellow/.ers have made on this issue.
Instead of spreading FUD about Outlook, it's time for us Linux users to show a little maturity, or else what is there to distinguish us from the Windows crowd?
Back on-topic (see!), I thought the article referenced by/. was totally disgraceful. As others before me have pointed out, all this self-congratulation is juvenile and self-defeating, because if Open Source / Free Software is to triumph, it would do well not to follow the arrogant path blazed by Microsoft.
This is my first ever post actually, I have been a lurker for a good year, most times I don't post because I don't want to be redundant - there are many intelligent posters here who voice pretty much what needs to be said.
Today however I was sufficiently annoyed to post on this,/. used to be a place to get NEWS, not a forum for self-congratulation and spreading our own version of FUD.
Where are all the intelligent posts? And more to the point, the intelligent moderators? I thought that by browsing at +2 I'd be able to filter out the chaff, but now moderators are modding up disinformation as well!
Please, let's increase the signal-to-noise ratio here people...
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Don't know if this will make a difference to your thinking.
9 06/10/iphone.idg/index.html>
6 /pressroom/2000/mar00/corp_031600b.htm?acquired>
Infogear announces iPhone (June 10, 1999)
<URL:http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9
Cisco acquires Infogear (March 16, 2000)
<URL:http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/14
After reading 73 messages on this topic (I browse at +2), I've come to the conclusion that if there are total morons in the corporate environment (I know, I am a network admin), there must be an equal proportion of hardcore Linux supporters who are totally ignorant.
.vbs script and does NOT autorun in Outlook, posted all over the /. threads that discuss ILOVEYOU, you STILL have idiots who (presumably) read this board and who continue to spread the uninformed opinions that:
/. reader, you'd already know about this from the many informative posts fellow /.ers have made on this issue.
/. was totally disgraceful. As others before me have pointed out, all this self-congratulation is juvenile and self-defeating, because if Open Source / Free Software is to triumph, it would do well not to follow the arrogant path blazed by Microsoft.
/. used to be a place to get NEWS, not a forum for self-congratulation and spreading our own version of FUD.
...
Four days after the outbreak of ILOVEYOU and DETAILED explanations of how ILOVEYOU is a
1. It autoruns in Outlook, or Outlook Express.
2. It's a security hole in the Windows OS.
3. It's a bug in Outlook.
This ISN'T the case, and if you were a regular
Instead of spreading FUD about Outlook, it's time for us Linux users to show a little maturity, or else what is there to distinguish us from the Windows crowd?
Back on-topic (see!), I thought the article referenced by
This is my first ever post actually, I have been a lurker for a good year, most times I don't post because I don't want to be redundant - there are many intelligent posters here who voice pretty much what needs to be said.
Today however I was sufficiently annoyed to post on this,
Where are all the intelligent posts? And more to the point, the intelligent moderators? I thought that by browsing at +2 I'd be able to filter out the chaff, but now moderators are modding up disinformation as well!
Please, let's increase the signal-to-noise ratio here people