Any Windows user who can *find* someone to complain to, with even the least hope of resolution, about virus & macro deliver in Win9x/NT/Outlook/Exchange and the whole SHS/VBX/OCX debacle, is a user who has an inside track. MS is reaping the harvest of unintended consequences from too much enhancement of the OS & interface, to accomodate assumed desires by users, and *real* desires by marketers and spammers, to 'enhance' our e-mail experience. But as a grain of salt... Imagine Red Hat 6.2 as the basis for a desktop replacement revolution. What interesting things could you do if users started setting up their RH machines, with user 'root' as their day-to-day signon?? Cute perl scripts running out of the root mailbox? Privileged commands from executable html? What happens when a decent Linux web browser implements XML sufficiently to permit executions without the user recognizing it? Linux has at least as much opportunity in it for cracking & hacking via mail, web, who knows? Before Linux replaces Windows, it will get more robust security at the OS level. Or it will just be another OS. Oh, and the Linux development community is both more inspired, more accessible, and more responsive. They may win. Rick - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
