Re: [SLUG] I told them . . .

From: Robert Snyder (robertsnyder@gmail.com)
Date: Sun Aug 01 2004 - 15:12:48 EDT


God the usual MS bashing has started again.

Now I dont like microsoft for a lot of reasons. But I am going to at
least say that alot of this has to due to there popularity.

Example Quicktime.

No one ever try finding expliots in quicktime until it was installed
on half a billion windows machines because of Apple itunes then apple
went out and has issues 4 security updates for quicktime just becuase
it became part of a popular piece of software.

Now lets just say Linux had a 90 percent foot hold on the desktop
market. More and more bugs and expliots would be found. Yes they
probably would be fixed very quickly as they always been. But I see
where we would still all up updating linux on every 2 weeks just like
most do with windows.

Problem is this . Not that there is a lot of bugs just to many core
aspects of what we call windows. Basicly if you removed VB and Active
X and Outlook and IE from windows. Windows it self as a kernel and
core dont have a a large overwhelming number of fixes. I took the
time and read some of the fixes that i was downloading. most of them
were not for windows as they were fixing the bs addons that people
think they need. Like 4 different patches in a row to fix built in cd
burning. (which is not even handled by microsoft but uses Roxios
code) Windows movie maker. Like I give a flying poop about that.
Windows Messagener oh boy more usless bs for them to patch. (
pesonally I am one of few who actually uses the windows gaim port. )

I see problems in windows but I find more in them is all this extra bs.

If i were to count bugs in all the extra bs in linux probably have a
shit load of bugs too.
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