True that M$ is nowhere near as secure as *nix; however, as you bash away and curse M$, remember one thing -- if it wasn't for M$, it's bugs, flaws and SIZE, you probably would never have been able to afford the computer you are using to post your bashings. If NOTHING else, at least Bill G. has pushed the market forward and the Windows monopoly has in turn pushed the hardware developers. It is irrelevant which operating system is the most widely used because there will always be the groups of people who don't want to conform and as such feel the need to promote whatever product they use as superior. Well often those people perceive "Alternative" to be synonymous with "Superior" -- that doesn't mean its true. If MAC's ruled the world, you can bet you ass that OSX would be nothing like what it is today - it would not have the slightest traces of *nix and would be the endless target of rants, bashes and various posts by people who just wanted to be "non-conformists". Funny thing about non-conformists though; most of them conform more than they admit. I'd be willing to bet that the majorority of the vitrolic posts concerning this article were derived by someone sitting at their PC - and if they had just finished playing a game (OTHER THAN freakin another freakin quake engine clone) they may still be logged into that hated Windows OS! Yes, bitching all the way, but still, somewhere secreted away is their installation of Windows. So stop ranting about the advantages of Linux and just be happy that perhaps somehting is now going to be done about the security issues at hand and have a little damn respect for the develpers that (misguided or not) have put an OS onto more machines than you can possibly imagine! Monopoly - sure, but at some point those monopolies server/ed a purpose... if it wasn't for the AT&T monopoly years ago you'd still be turning a damn crank to talk to Martha the switchboard operator to call Andy and Barney down at the sheriff's department...
So in closing - who gives a rats ass what OS you run, ANY attention to security is good for EVERYONE!
Why would someone say they won't buy a DVD player that can support WMP? That seems absurd. If you don't like it, DON'T put a disk in there that's in that format!!! Jeez! At least the set-top makers are opening up to other standards. So it's MS!!! It opens the door for a company like Apex to say "Hey, cool, we can go open-source and not pay the license fee..." Who know's maybe MS flexing it's monopli-muscle will HELP the open source version, it sure as hell isn't hurting it cause I sure as hell don't think Divx has the backing to push the chip makers into doing it but with a nudge in the right directionby MS, the chip makers may warm up to non-mpeg2 standards!!! Damn don't be so paranoid!!!
They sort of stuck it to me as well. I'm an independent consultant in a bluestar area. They promised me a commission on any sales I helped them close. They are as of today 6.5 months behind on paying and owe me about $2000. After numerous calls to the person in charge of the partner program I was promised a check mid-February. Considering that I should have origianlly been paid in August, I didn't hold my breath. Now they are saying that they don't have an estimate on when I'll get paid.
Of course they fed me a line - get a 1.5Mb/s SDSL from us and you commissions will net out the charges. My lawyer advised me to quit paying for the service as it may be the only recourse, to trade service for money owed. I have followed his advice, since my dog has a higher net worth than these guys right now!
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True that M$ is nowhere near as secure as *nix; however, as you bash away and curse M$, remember one thing -- if it wasn't for M$, it's bugs, flaws and SIZE, you probably would never have been able to afford the computer you are using to post your bashings. If NOTHING else, at least Bill G. has pushed the market forward and the Windows monopoly has in turn pushed the hardware developers. It is irrelevant which operating system is the most widely used because there will always be the groups of people who don't want to conform and as such feel the need to promote whatever product they use as superior. Well often those people perceive "Alternative" to be synonymous with "Superior" -- that doesn't mean its true. If MAC's ruled the world, you can bet you ass that OSX would be nothing like what it is today - it would not have the slightest traces of *nix and would be the endless target of rants, bashes and various posts by people who just wanted to be "non-conformists". Funny thing about non-conformists though; most of them conform more than they admit. I'd be willing to bet that the majorority of the vitrolic posts concerning this article were derived by someone sitting at their PC - and if they had just finished playing a game (OTHER THAN freakin another freakin quake engine clone) they may still be logged into that hated Windows OS! Yes, bitching all the way, but still, somewhere secreted away is their installation of Windows. So stop ranting about the advantages of Linux and just be happy that perhaps somehting is now going to be done about the security issues at hand and have a little damn respect for the develpers that (misguided or not) have put an OS onto more machines than you can possibly imagine! Monopoly - sure, but at some point those monopolies server/ed a purpose... if it wasn't for the AT&T monopoly years ago you'd still be turning a damn crank to talk to Martha the switchboard operator to call Andy and Barney down at the sheriff's department...
So in closing - who gives a rats ass what OS you run, ANY attention to security is good for EVERYONE!
Why would someone say they won't buy a DVD player that can support WMP? That seems absurd. If you don't like it, DON'T put a disk in there that's in that format!!! Jeez! At least the set-top makers are opening up to other standards. So it's MS!!! It opens the door for a company like Apex to say "Hey, cool, we can go open-source and not pay the license fee..." Who know's maybe MS flexing it's monopli-muscle will HELP the open source version, it sure as hell isn't hurting it cause I sure as hell don't think Divx has the backing to push the chip makers into doing it but with a nudge in the right directionby MS, the chip makers may warm up to non-mpeg2 standards!!! Damn don't be so paranoid!!!
They sort of stuck it to me as well. I'm an independent consultant in a bluestar area. They promised me a commission on any sales I helped them close. They are as of today 6.5 months behind on paying and owe me about $2000. After numerous calls to the person in charge of the partner program I was promised a check mid-February. Considering that I should have origianlly been paid in August, I didn't hold my breath. Now they are saying that they don't have an estimate on when I'll get paid. Of course they fed me a line - get a 1.5Mb/s SDSL from us and you commissions will net out the charges. My lawyer advised me to quit paying for the service as it may be the only recourse, to trade service for money owed. I have followed his advice, since my dog has a higher net worth than these guys right now!