I suspect you and I have far more agreement than disagreement on these points, but we've strayed well off my central point and I'd like to go back to it. I'm not interested in debating the finer points of whether or not Linux is ready for non technical end users. Wrong direction for my issue. My issue, which I would like to restate now, is that it is profoundly irresponsible of those in charge of maintaining our national infrastructures to expose our access to power, transportation, and telecommunications to disease prone technology, well known to be riddled with security holes just waiting for the next half-baked exploit. We need to point this out to the media in our communities. I want to see the media questioning this, rather than likcing their chops over all the juicy viruses--and how awful it is that somebody would do that. Wrong focus. They act as if the underlying OS can be taken for granted. We need to point out that it shouldn't be taken for granted, and that the officials who do are culpible. Shaun Oliver writes: > From: Shaun Oliver <shaun_oliver at optusnet.com.au> > > *SNIP* > Oh, and don't think it's all command line. Remember, they CAN use GNOME > and KDE and all the other X widget sets, unlike us. > *SNIP* > while I appreciate that, > and the fact which I neglected to paste stating that your comments were > aimed at behind the sceens ppl that should have a clue, > unfortunately, and you're probably going to agree on some counts, > > some of those still adopt the point shoot and shit if it dies in the > arse attitude. > just think of the money you could earn if you were an enlightened techie > out there that knew the os we have so fondly adopted and use for our day > to day tasks. > it's about time that people learned servers ain't gonna run too well on > that other os. > sure if they want major down time due to worms viri trojans and the like > go right ahead but I for one don't. > so my mistake in the first place but I still maintain that the end user > could benifit from using GNU/Linux too hehe > > -- > Shaun Oliver > "Becareful of the toes u step on today, they maybe connected to the ass you have to kiss tomorrow!" > > EMAIL: shaun_oliver at optusnet.com.au > ICQ: 76958435 > YAHOO: blindman01_2000 > MSN: blindman_2001 at hotmail.com > AIM: captain nemo 200 > IRC: irc.awesomechat.net:6666 > IRCNICK: blindman > CHANNELS: #awesomeradio #mircpopup-magic #linux #help #ourworld #audiofile #mauisun > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175
