On Thursday 04 April 2002 03:45 pm, Sridhar Dhanapalan opened a hailing frequency and transmitted:
> Does anybody seriously think this will be a good thing for Linux and free > software? I most certainly don't. Why pay US$99 when you can get > CodeWeavers CrossOver Office for $54.95, which you can install on mostly because the average person won't be able to install an RPM of codeweavers. just ask john. ;-) > root password. All we need are a few easily-written exploit scripts for > this poor excuse of an OS and open source as a whole (not just Lindows) > will be given a bad name. GNU/Linux virii will become a widespread > reality (on Lindows, that is), fueling opposition to open source. i say mandrake should write a "windows emulation layer" in 9.0. it should be easy, when turned on it will choose a random amount of time between 1 minute and 4 hours, after which it will reboot without warning. a plugin could be made to randomly delete a file after displaying a virus message every (random number) of email downloads. lets start taking windows compatability seriously! -- Computers are like air conditioners they stop working properly if you open windows. shane Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ Registered linux user #101606 @ http://counter.li.org/
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