The EU has developed from a great idea to an organisation that tries to regulate every aspect of its "citizens". One may ask why this is the case. After all, the whole point behind the EU is to create a free market, without border inspections or import regulations between its memberstates. Maybe it is because the politicans in the EU have nothing else to do, since they have virtually no power over all the interesting stuff, like military or foreign relations. Instead, they focus on regulating every product they can find and by this way, destroying the free market they once build up.
On my personal view, i am sick of all these "Think of the children!" argumentations, which are mostly dull explanations for censorship. Wasn't the western world once so proud of the freedom its citizens had? To protect children from the harms which wait in the world, or at least prepare them, is the job of their parents, not the state. It is an insult to every hard-working mother or father, when the goverment (or in this case, a pseudo-goverment) tells them that they are simply to stupid to raise their kids right and there have to be laws to ensure their safety.
But its a lot easier for parents to just fill out a checklist than to teach their children some lessons about healthy food and the right amount of sport to compensate fast food. Its like TV, why raising your kids by yourself if the little friend from Panasonic can do it also
First, there are viruses for Linux, very few, but it is possible. Second, the main reason for the security of Linux is that people who use it usually know what they are doing, unlike many Windows-Users, who just buy a preinstalled PC at some shop and never thinks a split second about security or privacy. If every PC in the US would be running a Linux client, the results wouldn't be different from reality. Oh and one last thing, Linux is used by 10-20% of all servers and around 5-10% of all desktops (the numbers vary extremly). So it isn't "widely used" at all. I have no problems with it. I like it and even use it at home and at work if i can and it makes sense. But in the end, its just another OS and it has enough flaws and bugs of its own, more or less, depending on the used distribution. And its definitely not virus-proof.
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The EU has developed from a great idea to an organisation that tries to regulate every aspect of its "citizens". One may ask why this is the case. After all, the whole point behind the EU is to create a free market, without border inspections or import regulations between its memberstates. Maybe it is because the politicans in the EU have nothing else to do, since they have virtually no power over all the interesting stuff, like military or foreign relations. Instead, they focus on regulating every product they can find and by this way, destroying the free market they once build up. On my personal view, i am sick of all these "Think of the children!" argumentations, which are mostly dull explanations for censorship. Wasn't the western world once so proud of the freedom its citizens had? To protect children from the harms which wait in the world, or at least prepare them, is the job of their parents, not the state. It is an insult to every hard-working mother or father, when the goverment (or in this case, a pseudo-goverment) tells them that they are simply to stupid to raise their kids right and there have to be laws to ensure their safety.
But its a lot easier for parents to just fill out a checklist than to teach their children some lessons about healthy food and the right amount of sport to compensate fast food. Its like TV, why raising your kids by yourself if the little friend from Panasonic can do it also
First, there are viruses for Linux, very few, but it is possible. Second, the main reason for the security of Linux is that people who use it usually know what they are doing, unlike many Windows-Users, who just buy a preinstalled PC at some shop and never thinks a split second about security or privacy. If every PC in the US would be running a Linux client, the results wouldn't be different from reality. Oh and one last thing, Linux is used by 10-20% of all servers and around 5-10% of all desktops (the numbers vary extremly). So it isn't "widely used" at all. I have no problems with it. I like it and even use it at home and at work if i can and it makes sense. But in the end, its just another OS and it has enough flaws and bugs of its own, more or less, depending on the used distribution. And its definitely not virus-proof.