On Dec 6, 2004, at 17:59, Jeff @ SLYN Systems wrote: > Hey Jerry, Bill and Harry, > I'd like to offer just a teeny bit more of food for thought. > Would you agree this is a numbers game???Wouldn't most wackos?write a > virus because they want fame, money or to release anger?
Possibly, but if fame were the target, then putting something > With Macs holding 3.2% of the market share, Apple is a smaller target > for fame, money or anger. > http://www.macminute.com/2004/01/15/marketshare > Whatcha thin Babalouie? > If there wasn't a virus threat on the Mac, would people still buy the > Norton Antivirus or Virex for the Mac?? Yes, because people think that there is a need for such things, or people (like me) are required to have some such thing on their computer thanks to all the MS folks who get infected every time they open their mail. > Of course, am not saying it's a signifcan't threat.? Just offering > another point of view. I understand - I just believe that MS uses their "we're big, that's why people pick on us" in a similar way to the way that <warning:political> the present administration claims people hate the US because its successful</warning>. The real reason that folks crack MS is because folks are lazy, and MS is easy to crack. Bill | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
