From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 30 2: 7:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.atkielski.com (ASt-Lambert-101-2-1-14.abo.wanadoo.fr [193.251.59.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5280B37B416 for ; Fri, 30 Nov 2001 02:07:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from contactdish (win.atkielski.com [10.0.0.10]) by freebie.atkielski.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id fAUA6lx07223; Fri, 30 Nov 2001 11:06:47 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from anthony@freebie.atkielski.com) Message-ID: <03ea01c17986$b9dd6f40$0a00000a@atkielski.com> From: "Anthony Atkielski" To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" , "Andrew C. Hornback" , "Mike Meyer" Cc: References: <001701c17985$89206f20$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> Subject: Re: Feeding the Troll (Was: freebsd as a desktop ?) Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 11:06:47 +0100 Organization: Anthony's Home Page (development site) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ted writes: > It does the job that Microsoft thinks you want > done nicely. Microsoft is right, for the most part. > It doesen't do the job that _needs_ to be done > nicely, nor is it easy to modify it to do so. See above. > Your not looking for it. I looked for precise figures on software piracy. > This is because Windows is so inflexible and > limited that Microsoft had to graft all the terminal > services onto it to be able to support this > kind of thing. No, it's because you are using the wrong tool for the wrong job. Windows is not a timesharing system, Microsoft's rather lame attempts at making it work in that capacity notwithstanding. > It's those kinds of bandaids are where you lose > money by spending it on time. Your example is very atypical, however. Nobody asserts that Windows is a better server or timesharing host. > Getting from where Microsoft wants them to > be to where the user wants Microsoft to be > is very hard. The success of Microsoft is evidence of the contrary. You seem to have a very strong emotional investment in resentment of Microsoft. On that path lies danger. > But then you lose all that savings when Code Red > or Nimba come around, because the idiot that set > up the Windows webserver didn't know enough to lock > it down. You may not even notice the infection, and it's easy enough to fix, so loss is minimal. On a UNIX system, an idiot might have sendmail silently assisting spammers, too. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message