Why not Linux?

Christopher Browne cbbrowne-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
Mon Sep 4 01:35:18 UTC 2006


On 9/3/06, Colin McGregor <colinmc151-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Well, never say never when it comes to politics. I
> don't think anything will happen as long the
> Republicans control the US House, US Senate and US
> Presidency, but hopefully that will change with this
> fall's elections (part of a Canadian disease at the
> moment, not being keen on Republicans :-) , never mind
> the fact that some US Democrat administrations have
> been about as bad for Canada as the Republicans...).

Part of the Canadian "disease" is that they tend to be insufficiently
imaginative to grasp how it could have been that *any* American could
have voted Republican, forget about giving them control of so many
portions of branches of the government.

It's a bit entertaining, if dismaying, to hear Canadians imagining
themselves to be on the "open-minded" moral high ground when their
minds are evidently not nearly open enough to perceive how ordinary
folk could have chosen to vote for the GOP...

> Also, quick route for Microsoft to get hammered by the
> government would be to have some sort of MASSIVE @#$%
> up in which Microsoft played a real part (say a virus
> exploiting a security hole that Microsoft hand known
> about, but not fixed for months effectively bringing
> down the Internet for a few days...).

The thing is, too many portions of Internet infrastructure don't run
WIndows for that to realistically happen.

Cisco legitimately makes a lot of noise; they sell the routers widely
used by practically everyone, and those routers *don't* run W*nd*ws.

It would be believable to hear that all W*nd*ws systems connected to
the Internet were taken down; that wouldn't take down the Internet.
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