<OT> Why not fire these guys?

[Tim Wunder]

On Tuesday 12 August 2003 4:29 pm, someone claiming to be Joel Hammer wrote:
> Here we go again.
>
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A49575-2003Aug12?language=printer
>
> If IS people hired by businesses and govt got fired for these
> screwups, they might not use MS. I strongly doubt that any IS people
> will be fired because of this. (What does the MVA care about customer
> convenience?)
>
> Using MS seems to be a job guarantee. Certainly, in the dynamics
> of a corporation, what would it benefit the maverick who pushed for
> linux? Likely it would cost him his job. This is a strong incentive to
> keep using MS software.
>
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I'm curious why none of the media outlets are mentioning that Macintosh, Unix 
and linux PCs cannot be infected by this worm; or asked why the MVA has their 
PCs connected to the Internet, or why they haven't installed the latest 
security patches from Microsoft. Sheesh....

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