| Liam Slider 2005-01-02, 5:50 pm |
| On Sun, 02 Jan 2005 15:09:50 +0000, billwg wrote:
>
> "Liam Slider" <liam@NOSPAM.liamslider.com> wrote in message
> news:pan.2005.01.01.23.43.27.674642@NOSPAM.liamslider.com...
>
> Well, Liam, you can call me a buffoon, but I am a serious student of the
> industry and the means that companies use to advance the state of the art.
> Unix is resistant to many of the on-line miseries that can infect Windows
> systems solely because of its sheer lack of functionality that can be
> adapted to the task. That is a fact that you must accept unless you can
> offer some counter evidence.
>
> Walt Disney had a tune in the 50's that had some character or other singing
> "Nothing ventured, nothing gained" and the lesson is just as true today. It
> may be that Microsoft has opened avenues of enterprise to vandals by
> offering easy paths to customizing mail systems on Windows, but that ease of
> use has resulted in orders of magnitude higher levels of participation by
> everyone. Unix remains mum.
>
Oh really?
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