On Thursday 21 August 2008 4:28 am, dee wrote: > Thanks for that Wayne, but I think you *are* a techie! <<vbg>> dee
Hi, Dee. I know I said I wasn't going to continue this discussion on the list, but I feel I must say that I strongly reinforce everything said by Marshall and Wayne earlier. However, even though one can run many open source software programs like Firefox on Windows--and it is far better to do this than to run Microsoft application software for many reasons, not the least of which is security. It is better still to run open source application software on an open source operating system--specifically Linux. Again, the reasons for this are many. First and foremost this includes security. It also includes being totally free from the control of Microsoft. Remember, Microsoft can, at any point, decide to stop supporting--or actively block--any application they choose to. They have done just this with Vista, MS's newest version of Windows. Many application programs--including many published by Microsoft and supported just one release earlier--will not run on Vista. This sort of thing just doesn't happen with open source software including Linux, in part because the source code for everything is available to anyone who wants it. This means that if some distribution of Linux, for example, decides to discontinue support for some piece of application software, others in the open source community can write a new version of the distribution adding the support back in. Also, because most open source software is free to anyone who wants it, there is no incentive to drop support for old programs or formats just to be able to sell you, i.e., require you, to buy a newer version. So it doesn't serve any purpose to constantly change formats or drop support for application software with each new release. -- L T R Registered linux user # 280295 Associate member #4758 of The Free Software Foundation itisi...@gmail.com -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com Address Off-Topic messages to: silver-off-topic-l...@eskimo.com The Silver List and Off Topic List archives are currently down... List maintainer: Mike Devour <mdev...@eskimo.com>