Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 17:06:31 -0400 (EDT) From: jack <jack@germanium.xtalwind.net> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>, <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: "Windows brings us something we don't have..." Message-ID: <20010524170121.F18547-100000@germanium.xtalwind.net> In-Reply-To: <20010524113922.B31551@xor.obsecurity.org>
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Today Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 06:15:39PM +0100, j mckitrick wrote:
> >
> > This is a quote from a zdnet article on organizations adopting Windows 2000
> > and XP. Is there anything we can learn from this? What could we add to
> > FreeBSD that could fill this 'gap,' if there truly is one?
> >
> >
> > For the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (news - web sites), deeply
> > mired in its first installation of Windows 2000 on
> > a campus that has spent decades as a Unix (news - web sites)-only
> > environment, it's simply a matter of first things first.
> > "There are people on campus who aren't too keen on Windows at all, but as
> > we work with them, they are beginning to see
> > that Windows brings us something we don't have," says Danilo Almeida, a
> > systems programmer in MIT's information
> > systems department.
>
> And what would that be, hmm? Massive funding injections from the
> William H. Gates III Foundation?
Blue Screens of Death, lost and corrupted data, wasted time
waiting for reboots, Back Orifice, NetBus, and hundreds of other
security holes, totally stupid defaults set by the installation
program,.........
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