kudos to your FOSS spirit but its NOT logical to defend Linux on BASELESS grounds.
That's an insult! Get that.... >Say, tomorrow Microsoft starts updating your system, without your consent. > What are you going to do? strange conspiracy theory! lol There is something called MARKET REPUTATION & MOTIVE FOR AN ACTION. Microsoft isn't stupid to do something completely crazy again the interest of their customers. But i can imagine Alen or Linus being held as hostage and forced to insert a bug in the kernel while rest of the world is in hurry to yum the update. >Let's pretend that you are asleep and the next thing >you know is that your system is controlled by some >botnet and what not down in Russia. what will you >do? What will be your reaction? It was Debian repository that got hacked and malicious code inserted in the kernel successfully, left to be discovered later. So lets not imagine, just ask someone in the community, what did they do? how did they react? But Microsoft clients can just imagine, ooohhhh ya! >Microsoft says that it redesigned Vista's security from bottom up (TCP Stack, >Firewall, the anti-spyware software etc...) but is it so? I have played a full day with >Microsoft Vista and while like all other "products" in it's line, it was fancy with lots >of eye-soothing technology in-built but ask yourself this: how much $$$ do you >have to spend to get Vista running properly? how much RAM, new-CPU+maybe >mobo+ GPU upgrades do you have to spend even before you can enjoy the eye >-soothing Microsoft Vista? > You can always disable eye-candy resource hungry stuffs and get things locked pretty good. Microsoft maybe exaggerating and magnifying on the claims but that's marketing.... a fair game..... like we do to promote FOSS, FOSS as a solution for everything. But Microsoft has improved its track record on security.... go figure out, securityfocus.com/bid/ and compare it yourself. to keep things simple; DEP, TPM, IE in jail, better privilege management and more.... are good things about vista. In next generation of the OS things will be in .NET and other legacy apps in virtual machine. Microsoft is heading the right way. But does your $$$ worth the right investment now depends on your requirement or maybe later or never. Microsoft set security as primary goal and started working on it and that input comes with a price tag to pay and enjoy if it worths it for you. I know Linux fans... gamers.... who don't mind going shopping every year-so to buy graphics card or adding some more ram to play the latest games. Don't you? But when a new OS was released...(vista) OS supposed to be more stable, secure, next generation of most popular windows OS Microsoft had to offer these were people crying because it was pricey and not suitable for older PC. Easy, hardware technology is getting better rapidly so as the software.7 years ago i wanted a 1 gb hdd so badly. 4 years ago my 20 gb hdd was big enough for me for a year ,currently i am finding my 250 gb not inadequate. Like, right now i would find it hard to fit my important datas, some music, debain installation and backup on the hard disk i had 4 years ago. Hardware isn't very costly these days and its fair deal to have to upgrade your hardware to something current in every 5 years. I take hardware cost as as medium price to pay considering software cost, wrt productivity loss and so on.... with FOSS solutions not being backward compatible, problems with drivers etc. I wouldn't doubt too much about installing a software in any version of windows and doubt about functionality. > The point I am trying to make is this: Linux saves you money too! > This was an intentional rant not aimed at anyone in particular but a group of > people I know who usually makes fun of fossnepal in Nepal, in KTM to be > precise. Grow up. Please. > The point I am trying to make is this: Spread the word of FOSS but with a strong technical and logical blackened when it comes to convincing people. Yes, FOSS holds strong grounds but i am tooooo sick of hearing illogical, kiddish and half-Witt rants about Microsoft technology in name of promoting FOSS. Above all, most of things what people talk against Microsoft and for Linux over here is mostly based on heir re-write of news on their words they read online NOT based on self analysis. congrach, character of most Nepali. This was an intentional rant not aimed at anyone in particular but a group of people. -bipin --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ FOSS Nepal mailing list: [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
