[66917] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: MS is vulnerable
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vivien M.)
Thu Jan 29 11:27:28 2004
From: "Vivien M." <vivienm@dyndns.org>
To: "'Jason Lixfeld'" <jason@lixfeld.ca>, <doug@nanog.con.com>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 11:10:49 -0500
In-Reply-To: <F4B3F868-5273-11D8-901A-000A95989E4A@lixfeld.ca>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On=20
> Behalf Of Jason Lixfeld
> Sent: January 29, 2004 10:58 AM
> To: doug@nanog.con.com
> Cc: Vivien M.; nanog@merit.edu
> Subject: Re: MS is vulnerable
>=20
> > This is because your mom doesn't want to have to hire a technical=20
> > consultant to manage her IT infrastructure when all she=20
> wants to do is=20
> > get email pictures of her grandkids.
>=20
> Then yer mom should get a Mac.
And if she's like my mom, she'll be in the aisle in the computer store
(well, the big box electronics store, more realistically) and be like =
"Why
should I pay $2000 for this one when I can get 'a computer' for $500?" =
[1]
You can't expect people's mothers to actually know the differences =
between
the different platforms, just like I'm sure that when most people's =
mothers
shop for cars, they can't tell you the advantage of a particular engine =
type
over another. They just end up picking based on price and "ability to =
meet
need", and for most mothers old-enough-to-have-NANOG-posting-kids out =
there,
your $500 eMachines or whatever is more than enough. Expecting them to =
spend
additional money to address a problem they don't understand is an
unrealistic expectation.
Vivien
--=20
Vivien M.
vivienm@dyndns.org
Assistant System Administrator
Dynamic Network Services, Inc.
http://www.dyndns.org/=20
