On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 11:59:34PM -0800, Tomas L. Byrnes wrote:
> But wait, aren't we all already paying the "Microsoft Tax" on every
> computer we buy from a major OEM, whether it has Windows or not?
We're also paying the Microsoft tax with our servers: to at least five
or six 9's, zombie-sourced spam fingerprints as originating on Windows.
Toss in ssh brute-force attempts, viruses, spyware, ftp brute-force
attempts, http exploit attempts, etc., and we all end up paying for
their incompetence.
And that's why I use:
http://use.perl.org/~merlyn/journal/17094
and variants wherever I can.
---Rsk
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