David Masover wrote:
Perhaps it wasn't you that made the first comment, but the first person who started talking about Linux in this thread did so by implying that doing anything other then installing Linux was stupid and a waste of time. If that wasn't you, then you just jumped on the Linux rant after that.an excuse to tell them how ignorant they are for "not doing it your way"
I was suggesting my way. I wasn't implying that anyone was stupid.
I NEVER said I trusted Microsoft ! I don't even really like Microsoft, and I agree that Windows isn't a great OS. What I disagree with is your assertion that it's possible to do all the same things with Linux as you can with Windows. Yes, there is more software being produced now that will run under Linux, but there's no where near the same variety.niche that's not going to be supported by the mainstream. And, if it
I suspect that this niche would include much of freenet. If I don't even trust my ISP, how am I supposed to trust Microsoft?
And ? You're just helping make my point. 25-30% of a small portion of the total computer market is what in terms of totla number of computers ? I'm still guessing it's less then 1%. Most of Freenet, how many Freenet nodes are out there ? 2500 or so ? Again, a small niche market. I'm not saying that there's anything wrong with Linux. I've said several times now, that I agree that Linux is more secure then Windows, I just think that using any oppurtunity to try to push it is just plain stupid. The average computer user, not technician or programmer, is running Windows. When they ask for help configuring a piece of software, so that Freenet works ON THIER SYSTEM, telling them to go out and buy another system to install Linux on, or that they should wipe their existing OS and run Linux, just so that they can run a Freenet node is moronic. If you want to expand Freenet, the way to do it is not by making it seem like the only way to do so is on a Linux system.ever does take off, and surplant Windows as the standard, then the
hackers will just start writing their malicious code to infect it, and
It's already got something like 25-30% of the web server market. Don't
you think they've been trying? Maybe it's the open-source nature, or the
engineering of these systems that makes them more secure?
As to responding more intelligently then the ranter, well I'd say that isn't all that tough to do. What is hard to do is is to have a reasonable discussion when the other person chops out the majority of your post, and then responds to a small snippet as if that were it's entirety. (Yes, I snipped a bunch from this last post, cheifly the more insulting crap.)
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