Re: Will Linux become as vulnerable as MS ??

From: Christopher Browne (cbbrowne_at_acm.org)
Date: 02/27/04 

Date: 27 Feb 2004 04:01:34 GMT

The world rejoiced as Nils Petter Vaskinn <no@spam.for.me.invalid> wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 12:56:58 +0000, Billy O'Connor wrote:
>
>> Nils Petter Vaskinn <no@spam.for.me.invalid> writes:
>>
>>> The point is _people_are_stupid_ and when enough stupid people use
>>> linux there will be a market for an "ease at the cost of security"
>>> distibution.
>>
>> There sure will, and the distributors who wish to take advantage of that
>> market segment will be responsible for supporting their customers just
>> like any other vendor. I wish them luck.
>
> Sadly I'm afraid that the support would come from the computer
> knowledgeable friends of those users. That means us. In my case that
> support may involve changing distributions for them, not giving them
> the root password, and then ssh-ing in whenever they need a change or an
> update. I think that's the only way I'm going to stay sane.

Many of us have been working for _years_ to ensure that we are
sufficiently unknowledgeable about Windows that friends and family
know not to ask us to fix their Windows problems.

I can't see it being difficult to remain sufficiently ignorant of the
details of Lindows to maintain the same position. 

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