washpost discovers the obvious

[David Bandel]

On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 17:00:33 -0500, Matthew Carpenter <matt at eisgr.com> wrote:
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> Fortunately, for my part, I've never *had* to.  The economics make sense
> without it.  But there are some who feel the need to argue that Windows
> is cheaper because it is what they know.
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> Still others fall into the MicroSavior Religious sect (which I have to
> believe falls close to Atheism because no god would be that sadistic).

Try reading the old testament.  M$ is bad, but I don't know of any
instances of M$ turning entire cities' residents to salt (their brains
to mush, maybe, but their bodies remain intact) or wiping out nearly
the entire population of the planet, animal as well as human (or maybe
that wasn't really a big flood, the sewers just backed up in that part
of the world).  While demanding money for every computer sold (despite
the fact that many don't run Windoze) may be illegal and monopolistic
behavior, it doesn't rank up there with genocide of biblical
proportions.

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> Still others find comfort in the Microbe political party (inch-by-inch,
> we still own you).  ie.  The boss likes Microbe because is son's
> micro-computer at home runs it and he can get his email to run on it...

Yep.  And without even trying over 124,000 viruses and assorted
malware/spyware.  He doesn't even have to know how to compile it.

> 
> Humorous story.  A friend I work with was going to visit his
> father-in-law to help set up his wireless network since he just got DSL
> with a new broadbant/wireless router.  My friend gets a call and his
> father-in-law suggests he come over if he wants, they'll have a
> cup-o-joe, but the wireless was already set up.  When my friend asked
> how, his FIL replied "I don't know, I think the DSL technician must have
> set if up for me.  I just plugged in the wireless card and I'm on the
> Internet..."
> My friend did make the trip, and after visiting for a while he looked at
> the router/wap.  It turns out, nothing was set up.  He had never
> actually connected to the Internet...  Thanks to "plug-and-play"
> security philosophy his FIL had been connecting to the neighbor's WAP
> and using his Internet access :)

I've heard this story before ...

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Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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