>Then ignore that minority group and don't prolong their agony by giving
>them access to non-solutions like virus scanners.
I disagree with the assertion that virus scanners are non-solutions. On the
mail servers I run, I have installed some simple virus scanning software,
and it has, up to now, filtered out lots of incoming virii and trojans, as
well as a few outgoing virii (which alerted me as to who was infected, and
allowed me to advise the IT folks so they could go clean it up). Its not a
perfect solution, but its far better than nothing, and results in our
location not becoming a source for that kind of garbage.
>> The "lusers" want buttons, F1 and plug'n'play.
>
>Buttons and F1 they can have on all platforms, plug and play has never
>been farther away from reality as on Windows.
I understand that you don't use windows, so you are probably not aware that
this is not a correct statement. I have installed 5 different new pieces of
hardware on my windows 2000 machine in the last few months, and in every
case they were recognized and drivers installed and configured with no
intervention from me other than to hit the ok buttons when it asked it if I
wanted to install them. Even when I installed the OS on several of my
machines, it recognized and installed all of my hardware without me having
to fiddle with it like I had to in previous versions. Pretty darn
plug-n-play if you ask me. (this wasn't the case in any previous version of
windows that I have ever used, where plug-n-pray was the rule)
> The problem is not the OS security - most of the times there is no
> choise. The man askes for an antivirus softwere, not for compare
> between OSes.
>Everyone has hundreds of options, but the American culture apparently
>revolves around taking the wrong choice,
You can't make that kind of universal statement and have any credibility
left. We use windows 2000 on many many machines and it serves us well. We
use Linux on several servers, and they serve us well. We use Novell on
several servers, and they too do the job. We even have some older VAX
machines still in service because they still do the job well and there is no
need to change. IOW, we use what fits that particular situation best at the
time.
