If Microsoft wants a security tax, then who ever makes a bigger security hole should be taxed the most.... and that would be Microsoft.
You might say that the reason Microsoft is the biggest hole is because the are the most widely used OS (at least here in the US which is what this tax would apply to) but I think it also has to do with their marketing plan, and the default security setting which they propagated across the net for past 20 year. Yeah, they have made changes in the recent past, but that was after they filled the world with insecure systems. On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 8:08 AM, Chris Penn <cantorm...@gmail.com> wrote: > The Windows Operating System. Linux Driver development by hardware OEMs, > the IPad (no stylus!?)....... > > Chris... > > > On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Jeff Lasman <jpli...@nobaloney.net> wrote: > >> On Tuesday 02 March 2010 09:54:25 pm David Kaiser wrote: >> >> > >> http://www.itworld.com/software/98522/microsofts-charney-suggests-net-tax-c >> > lean-computers >> > >> > HA HA HA HA - Microsoft wants a general usage tax on using the Internet >> > - to deal with their insecure operating system being a tax on everyone. >> >> <snip> >> "I actually think the health care model ... might be an interesting way to >> think about the problem," Charney said. With medical diseases, there are >> education programs, but there are also social programs to inspect people >> and >> quarantine the sick. >> </snip> >> >> The health care model? Without being in favor of any "fix" suggested so >> far... can anything think of something more broken than healthcare in the >> US? >> >> Jeff >> -- >> Jeff Lasman >> Post Office Box 52200, Riverside, CA 92517 >> Our jplists address used on lists is for list email only >> Phone +1 909 266-9209, or see: "http://www.nobaloney.net/contactus.html"; >> _______________________________________________ >> LinuxUsers mailing list >> LinuxUsers@socallinux.org >> http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers >> > > > > -- > "As we open our newspapers or watch our television screens, we seem to be > continually assaulted by the fruits of Mankind's stupidity." > -Roger Penrose > > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > LinuxUsers@socallinux.org > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > >
_______________________________________________ LinuxUsers mailing list LinuxUsers@socallinux.org http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers
