Re: gEDA-user: which linux?

[Dave McGuire <mcguire@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

hoyuka hoya  wrote:
> It's sad, but now MS is better for many purposes. Ok there are many
> security holes and viruses, but if Linux were as popular as WinXP, 
> Linux
> would also suffer from similar things.

  I also have to disagree with this (I'd missed this earlier)...The 
notion that Windows is full of holes because it's "more popular" is 
absurd.  There are a LOT of computers in the world, and just because 
you see a lot of Windows machines ON DESKS certainly doesn't mean 
they're in the majority in the *entire* computing world.

  For example...Contrary to what those pillars of honesty in 
Microsoft's marketing department would have the world believe, the vast 
majority of the Internet *does not* run on Windows PCs sitting in 
computer rooms with keyboards, mice, and monitors.  You rarely hear 
about the true "workhorses" of the real computing world because, most 
of the time, they just keep doing their jobs quietly without blowing up 
or getting cracked...Managing your bank accounts, handling your online 
purchases, routing your telephone calls, delivering mailing list 
traffic, etc.  People don't use Windows for stuff like this...and if 
they try, they invariably don't do it for very long.

           -Dave

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