Why not LIndows?

Top Page
Attachments:
Message as email
+ (text/plain)
Delete this message
Reply to this message
Author: Ed Skinner
Date:  
Subject: Why not LIndows?
On Sunday 14 September 2003 06:13, Rob Wultsch wrote:
> I have been reading about lindows some and it seems to me that some of
> the hostility directed towards it might be iladvised.


     Running naive users as root will kill Linux for the general user.
     There will be viral and worm attacks aimed at Linux (with root=20
priviledge), Microsoft's marketing department will have a field day, and =
the=20
press will capitalize on the apparent failure of Linux to deliver on its=20
purported reliability. In the eye of the public, Linux will be at fault, =
not=20
Lindows.
     If Microsoft wants to destroy Linux, Lindows is a good way.
     (Has anyone checked to see if Lindows is subsidized by Microsoft?)


--=20
Ed Skinner, , http://www.flat5.net/