On Tuesday 12 August 2003 4:29 pm, someone claiming to be Joel Hammer wrote: > Here we go again. > > http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A49575-2003Aug12?language=printer > > If IS people hired by businesses and govt got fired for these > screwups, they might not use MS. I strongly doubt that any IS people > will be fired because of this. (What does the MVA care about customer > convenience?) > > Using MS seems to be a job guarantee. Certainly, in the dynamics > of a corporation, what would it benefit the maverick who pushed for > linux? Likely it would cost him his job. This is a strong incentive to > keep using MS software. > <snip>
I'm curious why none of the media outlets are mentioning that Macintosh, Unix and linux PCs cannot be infected by this worm; or asked why the MVA has their PCs connected to the Internet, or why they haven't installed the latest security patches from Microsoft. Sheesh.... -- RedHat 8.0 Kernel 2.4.20-18.8, KDE 3.1.CVS, Xfree86 4.2.1 10:30pm up 50 days, 23:21, 2 users, load average: 0.15, 0.20, 0.18 Help! I'm addicted to Klickety! _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
