Re: What protects Unices from Virus like attacks ??

From: Alan Connor (xxxxxx_at_xxxx.xxx)
Date: 08/25/03 

Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 01:29:40 GMT

On 24 Aug 2003 23:21:30 GMT, Gianni Mariani <gi2nospam@mariani.ws> wrote:
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> Alan Connor wrote:
>> On 24 Aug 2003 20:07:17 GMT, Gianni Mariani <gi2nospam@mariani.ws> wrote:
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>> I think you are ignoring the fact that a LOT of money is made from so-called
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>> "accidental" security holes. Fighting viruses and worms and intrusions are
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>> BIG business. Wouldn't you like to own some Norton stock? Billy does.
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> While William is a capitalist, he has no need for more money.
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> I'm pretty sure that everyone at MS would love to see the days of
> viruses behind them.
>

Obviously, I think you are wrong.

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>> Haven't you noticed that when a hole shows up that M$ has the patch out
>> before the ink is even dry on the page? They KNEW it was there all along.
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> There is good reason for that. Go do some research. Nothing suspicious
> about that.
>

I say there is. And I have done "some research".

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>> It's just another capititalist scam. And you can bet the same problems are
>> going to start showing up in the commercial linux distros. You know, the ones
>> where you can't tell without asking whether they are M$ or linux?
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> If you read my post clearly, it's already happened to Linux. Just not
> in the big scale like this. It's happened to virtually all the large
> user base operating systems.
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> Notice however, there are very few Norton like companies for Linux ?
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>

Like I said, there aren't many YET. But there will be, for the commercial
ones, the ones that seek to emulate M$ and focus on gargantuan multi-media
integrated systems.

I am not going to discuss this further with you, because you failed to
offer any proof at all of your assertions, simply re-stating them
with an added implication that I haven't done my homework, which you have
no way of knowing.

My only "proof" is that I am a lifelong student of capitalism and if you
dont understand its fundamentally corrupt nature, then I can't help you
to open your eyes and objectively assess the world around you.

Perhaps we will discuss other things another time...

Alan C

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