You should learn to read, or at least practice your comprehension skills, the GP, said nothing like what you said.. you could be a Troll I suppose
My my, we are touchy today! Cannot understand perhaps why people do not switch to Linux while you belt them with your Linux manual? I did not and still do not care what the GP said, otherwise THAT is the post I would have replied to. In this instance, I replied to YOUR post, which was about SERVERS (perhaps you are a troll, the GP was about Linux on the desktop - you were totally off-topic).
If you want people to use Linux, take some advice. Firstly, stop frothing at the mouth, it scares people away. Telling someone they are stupid for not doing something is not a good way to convert them. An unsecured, unpatched *nix box will be just as vulnerable as an unsecured Win box, so get off your high horse. And a big one, never assume someone is less intelligent than you just because they dont agree with everything you think. I can guarantee you there are plenty of people with far higher intelligence who will see the world totally differently.
Oh, and accusing people of trolling just because they dont try to convert the world to FOSS is rather immature.
No, dumbass, the difference is that closed-source companies keep it a secret (or doesn't know in the first place) when their servers are compromised while Gnome and Debian are very up-front about it.
So you say that because FOSS projects let us know of security breaches, that means that somehow they are more secure? If their security is breached, it does not matter whether they tell someone or not, the fact remains that their security has been breached. Of course being a FOSS project you will try to spin it that this actually means that they are somehow more secure. But if the MS servers had been compromised, you would be ranting about how that proves commercial software is less secure.
Go back to your temple, zealot. Its people like you with totally implausible arguments that makes all users of FOSS look bad
The same reason documentation is lagging in FOSS, its not "cool". Everyone wants to be in on the latest desktop environment / compiler / kernel because it gets the publicity. A screen reader will not give you the cool factor that submitting a patch for the kernel would.
And unlike commercial software, there is no profit motive.
This is why Linux will struggle for a while to gain mainstream desktop acceptance. Linux offers an excellent mainstream desktop, as long as your requirements arent slightly different. If they are, have fun trying to find something to satisfy your requirements. If people are going to switch, they need that bit extra - something they wont find on a commercial OS. Which is why it is rather annoying that the major desktop environments are trying to follow the Windows methodology rather than finding what Windows doesnt offer, and filling the niche.
An all too common occurence.
Youll find its the same with pretty much all companies. A company has no morals - its sole purpose for existence is to make money. The only difference is whether the employees of the company have ethics or not. For example, do you think IBM actively promote Linux because they believe in Free Software idealogy? No, its because they see big $ signs.
In the case of Blizzard, they are out to make the $'s, except they are far less subtle about the way they treat Free Software.
Yes, but *BSD takes security in general a lot more seriously.
Rather than racing around trying to be all things to all people, the *BSD developers concentrate on what they are good at: developing a darn good server OS.
For your average Linux user, this will be treated as a nuisance that interrupts them trying to get the latest unstable kernel compiled, for your average *BSD user, this is important stuff that affects the security of their IT infrastructure.
And remember don't use Outbreak... oops I mean Outlook. Its not a virus its just a carrier!!
The scary part is that we find this comment funny because of the truth in it. M$ has been responsible for a disproportionate number of the worms going around through Windows INsecurity, and yet sadly they will be the first company approached for any legislation relating to this.
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My my, we are touchy today! Cannot understand perhaps why people do not switch to Linux while you belt them with your Linux manual? I did not and still do not care what the GP said, otherwise THAT is the post I would have replied to. In this instance, I replied to YOUR post, which was about SERVERS (perhaps you are a troll, the GP was about Linux on the desktop - you were totally off-topic).
If you want people to use Linux, take some advice. Firstly, stop frothing at the mouth, it scares people away. Telling someone they are stupid for not doing something is not a good way to convert them. An unsecured, unpatched *nix box will be just as vulnerable as an unsecured Win box, so get off your high horse. And a big one, never assume someone is less intelligent than you just because they dont agree with everything you think. I can guarantee you there are plenty of people with far higher intelligence who will see the world totally differently.
Oh, and accusing people of trolling just because they dont try to convert the world to FOSS is rather immature.
So you say that because FOSS projects let us know of security breaches, that means that somehow they are more secure? If their security is breached, it does not matter whether they tell someone or not, the fact remains that their security has been breached. Of course being a FOSS project you will try to spin it that this actually means that they are somehow more secure. But if the MS servers had been compromised, you would be ranting about how that proves commercial software is less secure.
Go back to your temple, zealot. Its people like you with totally implausible arguments that makes all users of FOSS look bad
And thus dawns a new age of litigation (as if the old one had ever finished).
As usual, the only winners in this will be the lawyers.
Unlikely to happen any time soon
Why?
The same reason documentation is lagging in FOSS, its not "cool". Everyone wants to be in on the latest desktop environment / compiler / kernel because it gets the publicity. A screen reader will not give you the cool factor that submitting a patch for the kernel would.
And unlike commercial software, there is no profit motive.
This is why Linux will struggle for a while to gain mainstream desktop acceptance. Linux offers an excellent mainstream desktop, as long as your requirements arent slightly different. If they are, have fun trying to find something to satisfy your requirements. If people are going to switch, they need that bit extra - something they wont find on a commercial OS. Which is why it is rather annoying that the major desktop environments are trying to follow the Windows methodology rather than finding what Windows doesnt offer, and filling the niche.
An all too common occurence. Youll find its the same with pretty much all companies. A company has no morals - its sole purpose for existence is to make money. The only difference is whether the employees of the company have ethics or not. For example, do you think IBM actively promote Linux because they believe in Free Software idealogy? No, its because they see big $ signs. In the case of Blizzard, they are out to make the $'s, except they are far less subtle about the way they treat Free Software.
Yes, it would be good if large companies like:
IBM, Hewlett Packard, Sun, etc would become interested in open source wouldnt it?
Yes, but *BSD takes security in general a lot more seriously.
Rather than racing around trying to be all things to all people, the *BSD developers concentrate on what they are good at: developing a darn good server OS.
For your average Linux user, this will be treated as a nuisance that interrupts them trying to get the latest unstable kernel compiled, for your average *BSD user, this is important stuff that affects the security of their IT infrastructure.
The scary part is that we find this comment funny because of the truth in it. M$ has been responsible for a disproportionate number of the worms going around through Windows INsecurity, and yet sadly they will be the first company approached for any legislation relating to this.
This opens the door for a lot of things.
Airports are the obvious first step. Whats to stop the next step being computers?
You dont run an "official" operating system with DRM? You will be a suspected cyber-terrorist.
Encrypt your email? Heres a nice red armband for you to wear