You guys are like children throwing sand at the beach. Perhaps if you go and cry somewhere else we'll all feel a bit better.
It's waste of bandwidth threads like this that make me seriously consider unsubscribing from this list ... > -----Original Message----- > From: Jeremy Bertenshaw [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, 13 March 2002 11:56 am > To: Drew Whittle; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: RE: Why Linux won't suffer from viruses like > Windows/Outlook > > > Oh dear, the thing I find most concerning about the linux > community is it's closed-mindedness to other technologies, I > don't believe microsoft is better, I don't believe linux is > better, all are good tools for different tasks, don't knock > the products because of who the vendor is. > > However so as not to digress any further... my point has > always been that linux is in no way safe from the virus > threat which seems to have been sculpted by the > anti-microsoft crowd into a linux is better neener neener > account, surely theres nothing wrong with me invoking my > sporting nature and playing along with them? > > I mean really, it's all so trivial why take it so personally? > now do we have any christians I can try and convince that > they're wrong >:-) > > jeremyb. > > > From: Drew Whittle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: 2002/03/13 Wed PM 12:43:58 GMT+12:00 > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: RE: Why Linux won't suffer from viruses like > Windows/Outlook > > > > On Wed, 2002-03-13 at 13:31, Jeremy Bertenshaw wrote: > > > Theres no need to get personal Drew, usually thats left > for situations when you don't have anything as a useful > counter to someones aregument... > > > > I have little tolerance for people I consider to be fools > and if I wish > > to call someone a moron I will. > > > > If you can not see how stupid you are being then feel free > to continue > > this discussion. > > > > > > > > I think you have missed the whole point of the discussion. > > > > > > > The discussion that started out with talking about how > Linux didn't have > > Microsoft/OUTLOOK style virus problems and degenerated into someone > > trying to say that windows was better no matter what anyone > else said, > > even going so far as to pull silly examples out of the air. (eg the > > apt-get compile php/sybase, the cross platform virus that _needs_ > > windows to get started on a linux machine etc etc etc) > > > > :D > > > > > >
