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Article #1276Re: Windows 95 testing halted at Motorola
From: Colin Smith
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 16:08
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 16:08
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Joe Sloan (jjs@dostoevsky.ucr.edu) wrote: : In article <nevin-0908950249470001@mac-nevin.cs.arizona.edu>, : Nevin ":-]" Liber <nevin@CS.Arizona.EDU> wrote: : >In article <405h3k$u4k@sat.ipp-garching.mpg.de>, bds@ipp-garching.mpg.de : >(Bruce Scott TOK ) wrote: : > : >> And you can be quite sure that any available source code has been : >> grepped by lots of competent C programmers for anything that might come : >> to their minds... : > : >Yea, and the Internet Worm never happened, too. :-( : If memory serves me correctly, unix hackers had a handle on the problem : within hours of it's outbreak, that being possible because of the open : nature of unix. Are you advocating "security thru obscurity"? That is a : truly bogus (and naive) way of thinking... : Can you just imagine if this had occurred with nt? Indeed, there is a strong parallel between the benefits of source code openness & sexual reproduction! and the deficiencies of asexual reproduction and proprietry operating systems! : The endless calls to ms tech support, the foot-dragging by clueless : support people, the "upgrade packages" you would have to buy from ms - : The outcome would have been different, to be sure... : -- : Joe Sloan jjs@engr.ucr.edu http://dostoevsky.ucr.edu : Win95? No, none for me, thanks - I'm already running Linux... : Microsoft is not the answer - Microsoft is the question; the answer is NO! -- ______________________________________________________________ |Linux the FREE OS that has a Performance/Price ratio that is | |INFINITELY higher than anything sold by Micro$oft! | | | | http://sunsite.unc.edu/mdw/linux.html | |______________________________________________________________| NOTE:-This is my Opinion and not necessarily the opinion of ANYONE else, especially not my employer! Colin Smith. colins@mojo.europe.dg.com
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.terminals.tty5620,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel,alt.2600,alt.destroy.microsoft Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!news.sprintlink.net!dg-rtp!mojo!colins From: colins@mojo.europe.dg.com (Colin Smith) Subject: Re: Windows 95 testing halted at Motorola Message-ID: <1995Aug15.160852.17956@mojo.europe.dg.com> Date: Tue, 15 Aug 95 16:08:52 GMT Distribution: inet References: <4006km$4os@questor.org> <402ads$7im@sundog.tiac.net> <405h3k$u4k@sat.ipp-garching.mpg.de> <nevin-0908950249470001@mac-nevin.cs.arizona.edu> <40b1qq$suu@galaxy.ucr.edu> Organization: Data General X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Followup-To: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.terminals.tty5620,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel,alt.2600,alt.destroy.microsoft