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re: Wouldn't it be easier and wiser to switch to Linux?
Tuesday, January 20, 2004 at 12:09 pm
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Posted by Ricer46 (19759 messages posted)


Good analogy.


On Tuesday, January 20, 2004 at 10:55 am, Adam Bradley wrote:
>Read over this forum a bit and look at the knowledge level of the people asking for
>help

>Do you really think that most of them could handle Linux?

>As for Linux security, You know the Maginot Line was considered to be very secure

>And that army that manned it was regarded as one of the best in Europe

>Then the Hitler decided to attack France and the rest is history

>The moral of the story: any defense looks good as long as no one is shooting at it
>


>Windows takes the brunt of virus attacks for the same reason IE takes the brunt of
>spyware attacks

>It has a large market share and hackers and hijackers are going to attack the biggest
>target

>Just wait until Linux gets a decent portion of the home PC market and then we'll
>see just how secure it is

>Regards, Adam Bradley
>


Written in response to:
re: Wouldn't it be easier and wiser to switch to Linux? (Adam Bradley: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 at 10:55 am)

Responses to this message:
*re: Wouldn't it be easier and wiser to switch to Linux? (Adam Bradley: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 at 10:05 pm)

All messages in this thread [show all]
-Wouldn't it be easier and wiser to switch to Linux? (Clay Davis: Tue, Jan 20, 2004, 10:37 am)
*re: Wouldn't it be easier and wiser to switch to Linux? (alfred: Tue, Jan 20, 2004, 10:52 am)
-re: Wouldn't it be easier and wiser to switch to Linux? (Adam Bradley: Tue, Jan 20, 2004, 10:55 am)
-re: Wouldn't it be easier and wiser to switch to Linux? (Ricer46: Tue, Jan 20, 2004, 12:09 pm)
*re: Wouldn't it be easier and wiser to switch to Linux? (Adam Bradley: Tue, Jan 20, 2004, 10:05 pm)
-re: Wouldn't it be easier and wiser to switch to Linux? (werner: Tue, Jan 20, 2004, 10:55 am)
*re: Wouldn't it be easier and wiser to switch to Linux? (Sitting Bear: Tue, Jan 20, 2004, 11:08 am)
-Yes, a change to Linux would be better! (pauln: Sat, Jan 24, 2004, 10:03 am)
*re: Yes, a change to Linux would be better! (Mark H: Sat, Feb 7, 2004, 12:02 pm)
*re: Wouldn't it be easier and wiser to switch to Linux? (Matthew Parker: Mon, Feb 9, 2004, 3:07 pm)
*Switch to Linux or Mac OS X!! (Santiago: Mon, May 3, 2004, 6:42 pm)
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