On Sunday 13 June 2004 05:45, Hans du Plooy wrote:
We're lucky in linux. The numbers are on our side. If linux was on 90% of the world's desktops, we had all better do our updates and run a firewall - there would be a lot more guys out there trying to make trouble for us. Granted, it would be harder, but not impossible.
This is the old Market Share argument used to explain why windows is such a security sieve. That argument has been throughly debunked in many places on the net and I won't repeat them here. Its part of the Microsoft FUD checklist and it appears you've swollowed it hook line and sinker. And how DARE you call Norway a "technologically retarded third world country " !!! Trolltech http://www.trolltech.com/ Opera http://www.opera.com/ -- _____________________________________ John Andersen