[109652] in Cypherpunks
Re: Virus, Media and Open systems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Snow Crash)
Wed Mar 31 17:30:48 1999
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Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 15:32:42 -0600
To: cypherpunks@algebra.com
From: Snow Crash <snow@smoke.suba.com>
Reply-To: Snow Crash <snow@smoke.suba.com>
>What do people think about the fact that virtually no media reports on
>melissa mentioned that only Microsoft products were susceptable to this
>virus??
Because most people in the media don't know any better.
>What about the point of view that in the interconnected world, one should
>not use proprietary software, only open source software :)
Most of them wouldn't know the difference between Open Source and
Proprietary Software, hell MOST of them don't even realize that there ARE
other operating systems out there.
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